Dan Goodinson Wrote: > enduser Wrote: > >> > There is no nice solution other than building in a quality peak > limiter > or running a scanner/filter on the digital data stream before it gets > sent out the digital port for digital-to-digital situations. > >> > > Would that not be the same as replay gain? My (admittedly limited) > understanding of reply gain is that at encode (or after encode) you > can > build-in a sort of limiter to make the volume distribution more even > across the track. Would this, in combination with a pre-amp, achieve > the desired result? Replay gain is a means of taking disparate pieces of music, mastered at different levels, and making them come out of your system at the same volume level. The goal is to alleviate or eliminate your need to turn the volume up and down on a per song ( or other frequent ) basis.
Replay gain allows you to get your volume at a comfortable level and enjoy your music. Unfortunately this comfortable level, when faced with digital noise at max volume, is still enough to blow speakers. As digital data is present on the server (for the most part) before being sent to the SB, what would be useful is a scanner that looks for digital noise in the input stream. This would help the overall signal chain quite a bit. However, what is really needed is what radio stations use which is essentially a real-time mastering engine. This includes compression, equalization, gating, peak limiting, etc. This is the only way to get quality sound from a wide variety of music. It requires a lot of grunt to run such a mastering engine. If the SB system were a bit more open, the sound streams could be bussed into existing PC-based digital mastering tools and then out to the SB for on-location D/A. Maybe that will happen one day ;-) -- enduser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ enduser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18818 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
