On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:57 +1000, Fraser wrote: > > The amount of headroom between 0dB on the VU to digital 0dB is selectable from > - -15dB to -3 dB. There is no right value for this, it really depends on the > music, so just pick whatever value that causes the VU to spend most of it's > time > between +/- 3dB. > > (this stems from the fact that 0dB in the analogue world is the optimal level > whereas 0dB in the digital world is the maximum level)
You may want to increase the range of that reference level calibration, particularly as it applies to anything having a semi peak reading response. -16dbFS = +4dbu is not an uncommon place to run, and -20 is another common alignment. Regards, Dan. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
