On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:41:44 +0000, Harry van Haaren wrote: > In short: mix with enough headroom in Ardour, ensure that the > master-output level in Ardour is happy - ideally somewhere between -20 > and -6dB. When that signal arrives at the DAC, it will not > significantly impact on SNR. Then use an analog volume fader to change > the speaker-volume. You don't want to give away a demo that has got such a low level. I would stay below 0.0 dBFS to ensure that I wasn't sleeping during mastering and the 0.0 dBFS by accident were above 0.0 when recording the master, IOW around I would try to have peaks between a little bit below -1.5 dBFS and -1.5 dBFS, if possible even - 0.5 dBFS. Sure for live recording to much headroom is better than to less headroom. Assumed the meters suffer from the -3.0 vs 0.0 dBFS sine wave vs square wave issue, then I would replace -0.5 dBFS with -3.5 dBFS for the highest peak. Again, the headroom for private, professional, live recording etc. is something else, but if you give away a demo, don't expect the people who are listening to adjust the amp's volume. I'm not talking about the kind of the used compression, just about the peaks, for a demo you will give away. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
