On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:02 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > The second case, where the total gain should be <0dB, I would have > thought intuitively that doing this purely in software (especially on > very faint signals) would be less ideal than doing it in hw (you'd be > throwing away the resolution, wouldn't you?), but I'll admit that I > don't have the experience to talk about that with any authority. It's a common misconception that keeping the level lower than 0dB would lead to less "resolution". It depends to the sampling rate and bit depth and less to the level control.
