iZotope Insight 2 is a comprehensive audio metering plugin designed to help audio professionals visualize and measure various aspects of their audio. It’s widely used in mixing, mastering, and broadcast to ensure loudness compliance, balance, and overall audio quality. Here are its key features:
Loudness Metering: Provides precise loudness measurements with support for various standards (e.g., LUFS, True Peak) to meet broadcast and streaming requirements.
Spectrogram: Offers a real-time spectral analysis for monitoring frequency content across the frequency spectrum, helping to identify issues like masking or excessive energy in certain frequency ranges.
Sound Field (Stereo and Surround): Visualizes stereo or surround panning, showing phase coherence and spatial balance for mixes that require accurate placement and width.
True Peak Metering: Ensures there’s no clipping in digital-to-analog conversion by measuring true peaks in the signal, crucial for meeting industry standards and maintaining audio quality.
Customizable Layout: Users can arrange and resize meters to suit their workflow, with the ability to save custom layouts for different types of projects.
Intelligibility Meter: Analyzes dialogue clarity within a mix, ensuring vocals or dialogue are clear and balanced, which is especially useful in film, TV, and podcast production.
Multichannel Support: Insight 2 supports multichannel metering up to 7.1.2, making it compatible with immersive formats like Dolby Atmos.
Insight 2 is known for its accurate, customizable, and visually engaging interface, providing critical data for professionals to create mixes that meet loudness and clarity standards across all platforms.