cliveb wrote: > 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?
yes, correct. > 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 right, you have to make the first pass at a known low level. How you "know" is left as an exercise to the reader. In practice, I know all of my LPs well. > the preliminary pass must > be at a sufficiently low level so as to avoid any possibility of > clipping. Do you agree? Yes, agreed. > 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. On a lot of LPs, there is so much surface noise that I agree, nothing can make a difference. But for them, perhaps it would be better to buy the CD. This started as a comment on normalization. Normalization solves no real problems. This approach actually captures as much of the signal and as little noise as possible. -- Pat Farrell PRC recording studio http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
