Pat Farrell;248627 Wrote: > cliveb wrote: > > > What if you happen to choose a first-pass recording level that > causes > > digital clipping? The peak level of the recording will be 0dB, and > you > > have no way of knowing how far over it would have gone had there > been > > more headroom. > > Don't do that. With good audio tools, you can find/see the > instantaneous peaks. I use Cakewalk Sonar, it makes it easy. > > If you are just guessing, you are completely correct. I was assuming > some science. Pat, I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're getting at.
You appear to be recommending that before recording an LP "for real", you do a preliminary recording to find out what its peak level is, so that you can adjust the final recording level to get that peak as close to 0dBFS as possible. Is that right? Here's the point I was trying to make: What recording level are you going to choose for that prelimiary pass? If it's too high, the peak from the LP will be clipped, and you will not be able to measure what it would have been. Therefore in order to make sure you can accurately calculate the required final recording level, the preliminary pass must be at a sufficiently low level so as to avoid any possibility of clipping. Do you agree? I'm not criticising the strategy you're recommending, and acknowledge that it will give you the ability to set recording levels very accurately. I just wanted to make the point that it is extra effort and IMHO it isn't really going to make an audible difference. If you genuinely believe that it will make an audible difference, then I think we'll just have to agree to differ. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40894 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
