How much would you pay for a menu bar LUFS meter? Asking for a friend.

12:06supported now. So anyhow, an impressive upgrade from where they were last. Next question. All right. Jeff Francis in Columbia, South Carolina is asking, how much would you pay for a menu bar Luff's meter? Asking for a friend. Jeff? All right. So I guess this is a version of a Cochran, but so free. I found a great little free tool. Thanks to Production Expert website for putting this up.

12:36They do have a paid version, but the free, this is a piece of software called Luffs Bar. And this is Tokyo Meltdown. It's a very simple app that simply puts a little meter. If you look up there in the upper right-hand corner, you see a little Luffs capture. And that is what is happening. So this is a Mac-only thing. It grabs your audio right before it leaves your Mac,

13:13works with whatever audio you're doing, independent of DAW, whatever you play through it, and it grabs the LUFS there. It can actually, you can capture a reference, and it'll do comparisons to that. So it'll freeze frame wherever you click, and then it will show you the difference, the delta from that. So it's pretty handy. it's uh installs and uh it asks for one permission the ability to look at your microphone

13:39and then nothing else so no uh no sign in no credit card no checking on the internet none of that they have a 12 paid version that allows you to put plugins into that so you can actually put your room correction software into the output of your mac and not have it in your daw and it's got bypasses for that. So pretty, pretty slick software. It's GitHub. So it's open. People

14:07can look at it. Very cool. I've been watching it a little bit today against the OH meters and it's tracking well. Alexander? You know, I've never wanted, I think it's cool that somebody's made this, but for me, I prefer to have something on a dedicated screen. I use Ulean Pro loudness meter and it's running on a dedicated monitor and I really want that accessible at all times so I can see it.

14:36But that's me. I haven't actually tried that menu bar. Also, I don't like stuff cluttering my menu bar. I don't like stuff running there. Courtney? Well, hey, I don't have a menu bar because I'm not running that smackintosh for you people that are addicted to it. The, you know, why don't they make a cross-platform version of anything? I would love for Zoom Workplace to put a little feature into the Zoom window so it would have its built-in view meter.

15:05And that way we wouldn't have to wedge something in or see if it's going to work for everybody. And it'll be right there in the Zoom client for everybody who's joined a panel or joined a workplace. So I would rather see it put into Zoom Workplace than just a Mac application. So Liminal, if you're listening, don't just make it a Mac application if you're going to stick it in Zoom.

15:32I've given myself a little menu bar just for you, Courtney. I put it right there. It's a hand-drawn and custom. You know, that is a great idea, though, because I've had situations where I'm bringing in people that are just listening to a mic with side tone for the first time. time and I'm trying to get them to be in the zone and manage their own audio, but it's

15:55hard and they start backing off. They don't realize it would be candy to be able to have a little thing on their side. I said, Hey, here's what your sound is. Fix it. Mickey? Yeah, I would say Zoom's answer to that is the automatically adjust microphone volume checkbox for majority of the people that use Zoom, which is people who just need to have a conversation

16:19beyond a meeting. Regarding a tiny, a small, like a loudness meter in the menu bar, I guess it might be cool to have it, but I really don't have a use case for it. If I'm mixing and I need proper meters, I have a hardware meter, Clarity, I'm here. And if I need more information, I can put up VizLM from Nugent Audio, as well as iZotope Insight, which not only gives me