On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 01:26:49PM -0500, Brent Busby wrote: > My suspicion is that although one doesn't want to squash the > peaks too much, there's still something about my track that is just > too spiky to engage the woofers of some stereos until the volume is > way up This is getting out of control. What on earth is meant by 'engage the woofers' ? Trick them into producing some sound ? Psychology, marketing, sexual attraction or brainwashing ? Unless it's designed to produce lots of distortion, a playback system is linear. If you give it 1/10 of the signal, it will produce 1/100 of the power. If your mix sounds thin and lacking bass when reproduced on small speakers and/or at low levels, it just needs more low frequency energy, i.e. a different mix. That has nothing at all to do with how 'spiky' it is (whatever that means) or with 'squashing' peaks or whatever. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
