Hello everyone.
This is not a full release but one meant for testing. I’d like to ask everyone interested in their opinion on a change we are planning to make on the peak-meters of our devices.
We have found that the way they are used now often confuses new users and as a result many users don’t play with the optimal gain settings and headroom.
We have decided to tweak things a bit and also make the transitions between the colors smooth instead of static, with this the LED’s will also give a better indication of where in the range the signal is instead if in one of the 3 options there are now (green, yellow and red).
with these tweaks the following ranges are applied:
-inf dB to -40 dB → LED’s off
-40 dB to -6 dB → green fade in
-6 dB to -1 dB → green fully on, fade in of yellow
-1 dB to 0 dB → red
When the value reaches anything above 0dB (digital clipping) the LED’s will blink red just as they did before, to give a clear indication that the audio is being distorted.
Since the peak-meter LED’s are such a fundamental part of our product, we would love to hear you guy’s opinion before we change anything here!
The images that contain the new peak-meter software are here:
MOD Duo: http://download.moddevices.com/releases/testing/modduo-v1.8.3.1028.tar
MOD DuoX: http://download.moddevices.com/releases/testing/modduox-v1.8.3.1027.tar
The upgrade procedure is explained at the top of our releases page, here:
http://wiki.moddevices.com/wiki/Releases
These releases are an adaptation of the 1.8.3 firmware with the only difference being the peak-meters.
Please let us know your experience or if you find any issues