Dave,

It's called a TT-DR meter, you just have to google it. It used to be free now I think you have to pay. I loaded a screeshot.

I have way more expensive loudness meters but this seems to be simpler, and more accurate and dials in on what I want to know, what is the dynamic range--as in, are there enough sounds across the spectrum of timbre, bass, treble, mid-range, etc, or is it all squashed? The higher the number, the more dynamic range you have--i.e., more variance among tones along the sonic spectrum. It doesn't do anything to change the sound, it just let's you know where you are in the mix. It is very useful in that it allows you to click effects or tracks on and off to see where the "squash" is coming from so you can fix that and get back to a richer sound.

At a Dynamic Range of 3 or 4, you have that blue sound brick that is so infamous these days. To me it is noise. I can't tell what I am listening to. Hope the picture works ok.

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