On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 19:00 +0000, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Almost all of my recording is 'classical' music which does not > require high average level or invasive compression. But even > using conservative average levels (mostly EBU loudness based > these days), that doean't mean that you can't get a signal that > peaks above 0 dB. It may happen just 0.01% of the time, but it > happens. And such short peaks are no good reason to lower the > average level, and limiting them to avoid clipping is completely > transparent, so I always use a limiter in the master bus. I experienced this 0.01% of the time margin is overstepped as not being audible. YMMV Overstepping 0 dBFS not always cause audible results. Most times I'm not using a limiter, sometimes I'm using a limiter for the master bus too, but I don't think that it's a good thing doing this, usually a limiter does destroy the sound. Anyway, the context was about using the limiter as a very active plug-in, while you're talking about the limiter as something that will be active in the worst case szenario, 0.01% of the times ;). > but none of them would produce such > gratituous nonsense as what you write above. It's hard for you to understand the context of speech? :D 2 Cents, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
