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Peaking too early

Despite the move away from using a signal’s peak level as the be-all and end-all, the new loudness standards haven’t ignored the concept. True Peak is a new way to measure the loudest points in the audio signal by recreating how a real, continuous audio signal actually behaves. MeterPlugs’ Ian Kerr explains for us…

“A typical ‘sample peak’ meter will simply look at discrete samples to determine the peak level. The problem with

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