NUGEN Audio VisLM compares/contrasts mix loudness

With detailed, objective loudness measurement, history and logging facilities, NUGEN Audio's VisLM provides an easy-to-use ITU, ATSC, and EBU standard-compliant way to measure, compare, and contrast loudness during production, broadcast and post-production, on the fly or for entire sections of audio.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Oct 12, 2012

With detailed, objective loudness measurement, history and logging facilities, NUGEN Audio's VisLM provides an easy-to-use ITU, ATSC, and EBU standard-compliant way to measure, compare, and contrast loudness during production, broadcast and post-production, on the fly or for entire sections of audio.

Offering true-peak level metering (inter-sample accurate level monitoring); loudness range (to help decide if and how much dynamic compression to apply); momentary "instantaneous loudness" for mixing by ear; short-term loudness (3-second time window); and program loudness (long-term integrated loudness measurement); VisLM is a comprehensive tool that helps audio professionals cut through the complexity of loudness compliance.

Updates to VisLM being launched at AES include a dialogue gate option and a customizable sliding window feature. Additionally, VisLM will now be available in a 64-bit OS X version.

VisLM is available in two versions: VisLM-C (compact) and VisLM-H (history), with both versions available in 2.0 and 5.1 formats.

Following extensive development and consultation with the post-production community, NUGEN Audio today announced Loudness Toolkit 2. Available in April 2015, this will be a significant upgrade for the company's loudness measurement and correction suite. The Loudness Toolkit 2, which will include the VisLM-H meter, LM-Correct quick-fix tool, and ISL true peak limiter, will feature upgrades that make it an even more powerful workflow companion for NLE and DAW users. Within the Loudness Toolkit 2, NUGEN Audio is also making its industry-leading DynApt(TM) dynamic adaptation technology available as a time-saving extension for LM-Correct, enabling streamlined LRA targeting.

NUGEN Audio has released a new stand-alone version of its LM-Correct loudness analysis and correction tool.

Nugen Audio will showcase its Loudness Toolkit 2 at this year’s NAB Show.

SSL and NUGEN Audio join forces for loudness metering promo image

SSL and NUGEN Audio recently announced that they have joined forces on a new product, the LMS-16, a loudness and true peak metering system.

The time code feature makes it possible to relate the loudness parameters directly to timecode references, giving audio engineers and editors a clear frame-accurate position for any alerts, true-peak overs, maximum values and other indicators to picture.

To meet the evolving loudness requirements of the games industry, NUGEN Audio today announced that its industry-leading VisLM loudness metering plug-in now includes support for 7.1 surround audio for the Xbox(R) One console and the Audio Standards Working Group (ASWG) standard for PlayStation development.

NUGEN Audio today announced that Guild TV, the student-operated television station for the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, U.K., has adopted the industry-leading VisLM loudness metering plug-in. Guild TV is one of 41 members of the National Student Television Association (NaSTA) located throughout the U.K. that recently received sponsorship from NUGEN Audio. In addition to boosting the station's compliance with the European Broadcasting Union's EBU R128 loudness recommendations, VisLM provides a training tool for Guild TV students to gain loudness monitoring experience in preparation for professional careers.

NUGEN Audio has collaborated with signal processing equipment manufacturer DSPECIALISTS on the development of a software plug-in offering market-leading upmixing/downmixing between stereo and 5.1 surround. The plug-in will use the patented ISOSTEM technology, believed to be the only upmix engine that is fully compatible with stereo, delivering a surround stem that downmixes exactly to the original stereo.