What do you think of the TC Electronic Clarity M and AES?

30:20would eat next question next up is from guy cochran in seattle washington alexander what do you think of the tc electronic clarity m and aes alexander yeah these are cool products so what this is is basically a loudness meter built into a piece of hardware from tc electronic very popular you see this in a lot of recording studios i do see some people using these live

30:48as well especially if they have a live stream and they want to monitor the audio level a friend of the show james haldane bought one of these and i believe he's starting to use these to monitor levels in zoom and you know it's not i wouldn't call it cheap but it's not like insanely expensive i think it's i don't know what they sell it for in the u.s i think it's about 500 in canada it's

31:11probably like 399 or something like that in the u.s and yes it does use aes so if your console has a yes you can just send that feed directly into it the you can accomplish the same thing in software so what I do is I actually have a dedicated Mac that basically runs as an appliance and it runs a audio meter program called a Ulean loudness meter and I run that full screen so I

31:38don't really even think about it and it's it's on a dedicated monitor I can probably switch to it and show you it's because it's i've got the hdmi output of that mac getting piped into uh let me go back to me for a second i've got it going into my atem there's so you can see that now so this gives you all all the same kinds of telemetry that that does and yeah it works well

32:02for me i mean having the dedicated appliance i think is pretty cool but you got to make sure that you have a console that has an aes output in order because it doesn't actually have any analog inputs for sending audio into it one of the things you can do though is if you have a console that has no AES output you can get one of those Alveo or

32:22AVI o AES to Dante adapters and connect it that way although you're gonna you know you're gonna spend a couple hundred bucks on those adapters Alexander mentioned James Haldane's a friend of the show yeah if you're watching us on on YouTube, you could graduate into being a friend of the show if you go to officehours.global.com and come hang out with us. If you sign up there, you'll get an email every day that's got not only

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