On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:38:17PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I think the K-14 system might be more to my own taste. When trying to get an idea of how jkmeter 'reacts', be careful when using 'canned' music. This evening I compared two signals: 1. A broadcast from the BBC proms, relayed live on Italian radio, 2. A piano recital recording which I made some weeks ago, without any processing or gain adjustments. For both I adjusted gains so that the loudest parts of the music would indicate between 0 and +3dB on the jkmeter RMS level, i.e. the 'yellow' range. This is how you would normally use such a meter. For 1, the softest parts where at around -10 dB, and the maximum DPL was -9.4 dB. For 2, the softest parts where at around -20 dB, and the maximum DPL was -3.9 dB. This indicates that 1. was already being processed, both manually (by the recording engineer gently boosting softer parts - you'd expect more than 10 dB dynamics for Beethoven's first), and by peak limiting (again not very intrusive, but essential for broadcast). Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
