BFM - Metering Suite vs True Pan Usage & Stats
BFM or Big F*ing Meters is a macOS, Windows, and soon to be iOS compatible Metering plug-in designed exactly how the name sounds... really f*ing big. With the main goal of readability we wanted to bring a meter that you can see from across the studio and keep your records clip-free.
BFM currently offers 6 Modes with RMS, LUFs, Peak, and Peak Hold values, to give you a variety of views to keep your signal under control. The Text, Bars, Waves, VU Meters, Spectrum, & Time let you decide how you want to keep track of your signal with multiple fonts/formats to view them in.
Text gives you a quick look at just the values easy to see from across the room. This view offers the most values with RMS, Peak, Peak Hold, and LUFs (Short Term & Momentary with Maximum values and LUFS range) values available. Controllable sensitivity & peak hold time for all pages. Reset Peak Hold with a click off the value.
Bar offers a more traditional meter for seeing the range of values showing RMS, Peak, Peak Hold, and LUFS. Correlation & Balance meters included to set your stereo image and phase response. Peak Hold resets on value click. Sensitivity changes on bar click. LUFS readings select on click. Included reference points for -24 (EBU), -16 (Apple Music), & -7 as a suggested maximum for most genres.
Wave view gives you a look at your waveform after your channel effects with the ability to quickly mark in dB where you want to see your signals peak. To freeze click the waveform. To reset Peak Hold click the value.
VU Meter Designed for a quick look at your overall levels. Featuring controllable Attack, Release, Minimum, and Maximum value control. Left/Right, Mid/Side, PPM, and LUFS options available. Click VU to enter dark mode.
Spectrum is a simplified frequency spectrum view with 3 quality modes. Great for getting an overall look at where your frequencies are when mixing or editing. Tap to freeze and inspect. There is also the PEAK value displayed on this page. To reset Peak Hold click the value.
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True Pan makes it possible to reposition stereo recordings while perfectly preserving the geometry of the stereo field.
This allows for lossless, fully reversible panoramic rotations that don't compress the stereo image.
The plugin also supports more intense transformations and modulation effects.
True Pan can be used to:
• Pan sounds that are rich in ambience or reverb without diminishing spatial information
• Adjust stereo field recordings, freely rotate the entire sound field (e.g. to change what's in front)
• Easily shift sonic perspectives of fx-rich, layered stereo instrument patches
• Explore a new dimension of positional reverberation
• Add subtle motion to, or "liven up" omnidirectional sounds (can also be used as a special chorus effect at higher rates)
• Add a dynamic spatial quality to arpeggiated or rhythmic passages using the tempo sync feature with different LFO types
• Apply stronger modulation for sound design and creative uses (creating warble, flutter or stereo tremolo and glitch effects)
• Aid and speed up workflows for multi-mic setups
When used as a post-processor for reverbs, True Pan can provide higher temporal density and smoothness than what pre-panned reverb inputs would allow. This directly translates to a better quality, but can also be viewed as a different physical setup of the sound source and the listener in relationship to the boundaries of the acoustic space. Thus it opens up additional degrees of freedom in positioning.
The plugin's approach to quality preservation is best demonstrated by its ability to transform processed audio back to its original state, by applying a reverse rotation.
The included stereo spread controls incorporate features that aim to minimize volume fluctuations by adapting to the actual input signal and its M/S gain distribution, including a fully dynamic adaptive mode, and a snapshot-based one.
PLEASE NOTE:
• An Audio Unit v3 compatible host app is required to use this plugin
• Dual mono inputs from two microphones need to be converted to a single stereo signal in order to be processable
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BFM - Metering Suite VS. 
True PanJanuary 1, 2025