radish;421134 Wrote: > I'm not sure that follows - I'm no audio engineer but when I'm mastering > tracks I always set it to normalize so the peak is 1, but obviously with > no clipping. In fact, I can't think why you'd ever master a track with > the peak < 1 unless it's a quiet track on an album and you want to > preserve the differences between tracks. Having peak < 1 just means > you're wasting dynamic range...doesn't it? Maybe I'm missing something.
For 16-bit, I was always taught to master at a peak of 0.95 ( to allow some "wiggle room" in the replay chain - specifically the gain stage after the DAC) and would NEVER normalize in software to 1. I guess this meant I was only using 14/15 bits. For 24-bit this is much less of an issue... However, I agree that a peak of 1 doesn't necessarily imply clipping, but a peak of one AND a high negative replaygain together seem to add up. Certainly the semi-random sample I've just examined do... I accept that even together this is not an infallible method. That's exactly why I'd like to be able to use this software in a non-destructive way (like SOX). Then I could just pipe everthing through it and let it decide what to do on a track by track basis. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57872 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
