On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 12:48 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 10:36:28 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:58 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > > > > Of course you'd need to lower your input > > > > volume to give headroom for the push/pop notes. > > > > > > No, the compressor will lower the volume of the push/pop notes so that > > > you can turn up the overall amplification afterwards. > > > > > > The input should be set as high as possible without distortion on the > > > loudest parts of the signal. > > > > Ah, I was talking about digital compressing (for example, within > > ardour). Wouldn't headroom be needed for that? > > You mean more then the (almost) infinite headroom of double precision numbers > (used inside jack an ardour)? - No, not really... Actually, I'm pretty sure we're in different worlds, noob that I am. I refer to headroom given in the original recording so that the pull/pop parts don't peak. I'm pretty sure you're referring to digital headroom somehow, which I don't understand. > And compression _reduces_ the volume. Only after the compression you raise the > level of the over-all reduced sound again and get a decreased dynamic range. > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
