[Workflow]: Logging and Analyzing Loudness

There are several tasks you can perform related to both logging and analyzing loudness data in iControl. Certainly, before you do anything else, you must make sure your system is properly configured. You must also make sure you log before you analyze. While the sequence of these tasks may seem obvious, the sequence of other required tasks may not be. The following is an approved workflow for configuring, logging, and analyzing loudness data in iControl.

Logging and analyzing loudness
1.	Mount an external NAS drive to your Application Server (click HERE).
2.	[OPTIONAL] Map the external NAS drive onto your client PC (see your Windows® documentation).
3.	Start the Loudness Logger and Loudness Analyzer services (click HERE).
4.	Open Loudness Logger (click HERE).
5.	Configure desired event-logging settings for loudness alarms (click HERE).
6.	Log loudness data for the desired audio stream (click HERE).
7.	Stop the loudness log recording (click HERE).
8.	Open Audio Loudness Analyzer (click HERE).
9.	Configure general Audio Loudness Analyzer settings (click HERE).
10.	Open a loudness log file (click HERE).
11.	[OPTIONAL] Zoom into Audio Loudness Analyzer’s data plot (click HERE).
12.	[OPTIONAL] Configure loudness analysis parameters for this data plot (click HERE).
13.	[OPTIONAL] Generate a loudness analysis report (click HERE).


See also:
For more information about:
• Logging and analyzing loudness data [descriptive information], click HERE.
• Loudness Logger, click HERE.
• Audio Loudness Analyzer, click HERE.
• Audio Loudness Analyzer [more detail] and loudness analysis [more detail], see the Audio Loudness Analyzer User Manual, available by clicking Help in Audio Loudness Analyzer.
• The use of As‑Run log files for parsing discrete segments out of loudness data, see the Audio Loudness Analyzer User Manual.