The analogue meter bridge: two warm backlit dials in the tradition of a reel tape machine's meter row. The needles keep the old instruments' manners - the lazy 300 ms swing, the little overshoot kiss - but the printed scale speaks the same modern language as every level bar in Humus, so nothing here needs translating. The audio passes through completely untouched, and there is nothing to set: like a real deck, the meter is calibrated once and simply read.
Reading it
The scale is decibels below the digital ceiling: 0 at the top of the arc, the red zone from -6, the same marks as the bars on SoundIn and SoundOut. Needle and bar always agree - only the motion differs. Programme riding the upper third, breathing toward the red, is healthy. A needle living against the top means back off; it is telling you the truth.
The red lamp
Lights when a single sample nears the digital ceiling (-1 dBFS) and holds for a moment, so a lone transient cannot hide between two flicks of the needle. The needle says how hot the programme runs; the lamp says it is about to clip - two different truths, shown at once.
Mono cords
A cord into inlet 1 alone meters on both dials and passes to both outlets, so the bridge sits as happily on a mono path as on a stereo one.