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04/11/2014

RTW Equips Schulich School Of Music

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RTW has announced that the sound recording department at McGill University's Schulich School of Music in Montreal, Canada, has selected its TM3 TouchMonitor audio meter to teach students about loudness control.

Recording engineer and inventor George Massenburg said: "Normalisation for music is spreading, and we want to educate students to take advantage of this trend the best way they can," he says. "We want them to be able to make good mixes so they can work going forward."

The RTW TM3 features a 4.3-inch touchscreen and large number of graphical and numerical instruments showing single-channel and summing-loudness bargraphs, PPM, true peak, SPL, loudness range (LRA), dialnorm and correlation. Its user interface enables the selection of up to 10 presets, allowing students to focus energy on training their ears for loudness differences.

"Another benefit of having the TM3 readily accessible is when the students are working with multiple projects at once," explains Massenburg. "To give the students references when they're learning how to mix, we'll have them do a new mix but refer to another piece of work. It may not even be the same song – it may be something else, but to reference that on an equal playing field – meaning equal loudness – they've got to measure the loudness of that external file. So it's very useful to have the meter right there. It's not software. It doesn't come and go with the project. It's a part of the setup."

That setup is located in the Schulich School's Studio A, where the RTW TM3 is part of a range of solutions the students use to conduct mixes. These include Euphonix MC mixers, Merging Technologies Pyramix, Avid Pro Tools, ATC, Genelec and JBL loudspeakers and monitoring systems, among others.

"The TM3 helps the students adjust the loudness of a mix until it's roughly in the ballpark of their reference mix," adds Massenburg. "Then they can move ahead with making better mixing decisions. We find that elements that are punchier, such as a snappier snare or kick drum, really don't affect the loudness as much as a constant, dense mid-to-upper frequency range, so students don't have to squash their mixes to make them stand out. It leads to more dynamic mixes. It's a tool that we think is going to be more and more important to students and practitioners [as loudness normalisation becomes more prevalent in the music industry].

"We have it pre-set so that 85dB SPL is the target playback level, and -24dBFS is the target recording level. Since its relative between their work and an outside work, we can just kind of stay in that one setup. It's nice that it's flexible, but we don't want it to change too much, so everyone is already up to speed on how it is set up."

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