lasker98;565898 Wrote: > ... > For example, I have a ripped cd with album gain of +1.33db (I realize > 1.33 db is negligible but for example purposes). If I have my volume > set at 100%, then there is no room to increase by the 1.33 db? Is this > logic correct? > ... Yes, that is correct. If the volume is set to 100%, there is no room to apply positive replay gain.
As to your second question: there is track gain and album gain. SBS let's you choose between Album gain, Track gain, Smart gain and No adjustment. When you choose album gain, only the album gain value is used. This is what I use. In general, for classical music it is a disaster to use track gain: the deliberate volume level differences between movements would be killed if you used track gain. Track gain should only be used when using playlists with tracks from different albums. And don't use it with classical music. Smart gain is the ideal setting for most people: it means album gain is used when playing an album, track gain when playing a playlist with tracks from different albums. Album gain and track gain are never added (or subtracted): Album gain is the gain applied to an album based on the measured average volume level of all tracks on the album. Track gain uses the average volume level of a track. Both values are based on a the offset of a standard volume level (I've heard 89dB, but others may be better informed). For several reasons, using replay gain will not 'equalize' all volume differences. 1) There is a difference between measured and perceived loudness. E.g., if you play a single piano at the same measured loudness as an orchestra, the perceived loudness will be different. 2. Although replay gain can help getting rid of the ridiculously high volume of cd's of the last decades, compression applied to the music in this loudness war will result in a different (higher) perceived volume while the correct gain correction is applied. (That was exactly the idea of the loudness war: your song should be perceived as being louder). I hope this helps. -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71138 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
