Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Which master fader? The one in Ardour or the one in ALSA? Sorry...Ardour's. > Ardour's steps (around 0db) are very small, sometimes as many as 4 > step for each .1db. (ctl/alt/mouse wheel or send MIDI pitch wheel in > MC mode) ALSA's step are a lot grainier. (my ice1712 with mudita24 is > .5db steps and Qasmixer gives 1db steps) No, I'm not meaning that I can hear stairsteps as the volume changes. I was meaning that I thought I noticed timbral changes somehow. I experimented around with it more, and I'm pretty sure now I was just falling for Fletcher-Munson effect -- my perception of EQ was changing at different sound pressure levels. > 6db down is one bit of 24... to go to 16 for a CD means cutting off > bits on the bottom (maybe adding some noise) so -6 is safe. Wow, I never would have imagined that. So, I could mix to -6db in Ardour and still use most of the headroom on a CD? Is there any advantage to keeping your peak level that low on the master in the digital world? Or, put another way, if I *could* get the whole track to behave itself and not go above -1db at loudest peak, is there a reason not to? -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
