On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:10:00AM -0400, Grekim Jennings wrote: > Thanks Fons. Do you have a recommendation for how much headroom to leave > before the conversion, and if you do clip during the conversion is there > any sort of warning? I used to leave around 1.5 dB. The way I used to > go about this was to apply all limiting to the 24-bit 48000 kHz track, > then SR convert, then normalize (to ~ -0.3 dB) or set a final level, and > finally dither/quantize. In theory there is no limit to the inter-sample peak level. It *could* matter for some technical test signals etc. For normal music signals even 0.5 dB should be enough, and even if it clips you very probably won't notice. 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
