Thomas Valter The Loudness Based Approach Starting with technologies introduced by Dolby® many years ago, there have been numerous attempts to quantify dialog intelligibility using various loudness-based measurement techniques, and various ap... Mar 14, 2026 Dialog Intelligibility
Thomas Valter Dialog Detection Before diving into the various measurement techniques, one key prerequisite must be addressed. Many technologies used to measure dialog intelligibility rely on methods that determine whether dialog is... Mar 13, 2026 Dialog Intelligibility
Thomas Valter Challenges Where Do Dialog Intelligibility Problems Originate? What are the challenges when creating content with clear and intelligible dialog? In this article, we examine the different stages of the audio prod... Mar 12, 2026 Dialog Intelligibility
Thomas Valter A Growing Industry Focus Introduction More than 20 years ago, sudden jumps in loudness were identified as a major concern for broadcasters. Viewers frequently complained about noticeable loudness differences between programme... Mar 11, 2026 Dialog Intelligibility
Pavel Smokotnin Meet OSC on RTW Devices Whether you need to automate loudness resets, trigger presets from a console, or integrate with a DAW or other third-party tools, actions open up a world of flexible control. Multi-Device Control Wi... Sep 18, 2025
Thomas Valter Seeing Sound: Visualizing the Spatial Behavior of Surround Audio As surround and immersive formats continue to replace stereo in cinema, broadcast, and music production, new tools are needed to help audio professionals understand the spatial behavior of complex mix... Jun 4, 2025
Mike Kahsnitz Worldwide Loudness Delivery Standards If you are part of the vast audio production community that provides content for broadcasters or streaming services, you are constantly faced with different requirements to comply with various deliver... Oct 24, 2024
Mike Kahsnitz Eyes on your audio with the Telestream PRISM Besides providing our own RTW-branded metering and monitoring solutions such as the TouchMonitor series, we also provide quite a bit of help to other manufacturers, whose customers are asking for supe... Apr 19, 2021
Thomas Valter Watching Dante® 24/7 Production of a live-recorded reality show can be challenging both for video and audio engineers. We teamed up with sound engineer Martin Gross from the company Smartregie for a chat about the challen... Mar 21, 2021
Mike Kahsnitz Focus: The Surround Sound Analyzer Unique to the TouchMonitor, the Surround Sound Analyzer is a pioneering and unique visualisation tool showing the relevant technical and subjective parameters of surround signals in a fast and intuiti... Oct 14, 2020
Thomas Valter Get Your Eyes on RTW Meters RTW meters come in many shapes and forms. From the high-end TouchMonitor TM7/TM9's to the smaller and affordable TM3. You can also have them as standard plug-ins for your DAW, and they might even be b... Sep 30, 2020
Thomas Valter LQL - Logging the Sound Quality Why did the crowd sound so loud right there? Why couldn’t we hear what the speakers said during this passage? What happened after 16 minutes – I think we had an audio overload? Did we at all comply wi... Aug 11, 2020