Logic Pro (X) Level Meters in Bottom Left Inspectors of Logic Pro X.

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Robeen

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What are the Left Inspector & Right Inspector at the bottom left of logic Pro X [screenshot] meant to be used for?

I just received a Master of one of my songs and I realize I don’t really know how to prep it for YouTube [which is where I post all my songs].
I tend to get what I think is a decent level for the song in Logic Pro X - export the track to iMovie and do my video/photo editing there - and then cross my fingers and upload it to YouTube … hoping that it will sound good there. For the most part, I can’t say this ‘cross-my-fingers’ approach has been a failure. :)

I notice with the current Master that the track level is pretty close to 0 in the Left Inspector but significantly lower in the Right Inspector.
The two Level Faders do not control the level in the Left Inspector … but they both raise or lower the level in the Right Inspector.

My current thinking [which may be totally misinformed] is that I can use the two Inspector Faders to get what looks like a good level in the Right Inspector and when I export the song, that is the level that will carry over to iMovie and then, eventually, to YouTube. Is that correct?

Is there a more informed way for me to set the level for my songs once they are Mastered and before I export them out of Logic and on their way to YouTube?

I’d appreciate any help, pointers or links! Thanks in advance.


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The LH is the individual track you have selected, the one on the right shows your stereo out, ie the sum of all the tracks and busses/auxes sending to it.

I'm not sure it matters but my preferences is to have the stereo out set to 0dB and adjust the individual track levels lower. But that may just be me being old fashioned analogue hat on. Plus I always have Vintagewarmer plugin on the stereo out anyway.
 
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The left meter is the currently selected track, the right meter is the destination it's routed to, here the Stereo-Out.

In the currently selected track, you have Input Monitoring switched on, which means you're not measuring the signal of the Region(s) on that track, but the signal coming into this track's inputs, which then gets attenuated by the -3,5dB setting of the channel fader. So the actual input signal is 3,5 dB hotter.
This signal is then routed to the Stereo-Out and there you attenuate it even more by the -2,3 dB setting of the Stereo-Out fader.

Assuming the master you got is targeted at a specific loudness, you need to pass the master at this specific level to the movie file. To achieve this, switch off that input button (why is that on anyway ?), set both faders to 0.0, then export to movie.
 
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