On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:59 -0400, Bill Gribble wrote: > 3dB corresponds to roughly 1 bit of amplitude, so working at -20dBFS > means you are giving up about 6-7 bits of resolution to headroom, > leaving something like 17 bits in your "working" range, plus whatever > headroom you use for transients. Oops, that was stupid. 6 dB corresponds to 1 bit, so you lose about 3 bits. Thanks, Bill Gribble _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user