Re: [Sursound] Volume question WRT 7.1 sound recorded at listening position. (dw)

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew Levine
See Bob Katz' K-20: http://www.digido.com/how-to-make-better-recordings-part-2.html Regards, Andrew Levine -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130924/7cd3e952/attachment.html

Re: [Sursound] Volume question WRT 7.1 sound recorded at listening position. (dw)

2013-09-24 Thread Andy Furniss
Andrew Levine wrote: See Bob Katz' K-20: http://www.digido.com/how-to-make-better-recordings-part-2.html Thanks for the link, looks interesting, though I haven't had time to read properly yet. Accepting the above may give insight into my query, just to be clear I am not a producer in

Re: [Sursound] Volume question WRT 7.1 sound recorded at listening position. (dw)

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Landers
While -16.9 might keep you safe, a better option might be -20 dBFS. Gives some headroom in case you need it. Also, many consumer playback devices may not handle full scale output. On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:00 AM, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: Send Sursound mailing list submissions to

Re: [Sursound] Volume question WRT 7.1 sound recorded at listening position. (dw)

2013-09-23 Thread Andy Furniss
Ken Landers wrote: While -16.9 might keep you safe, a better option might be -20 dBFS. Gives some headroom in case you need it. Also, many consumer playback devices may not handle full scale output. Interesting, I am not a producer of anything as such, but do see that a lot of digital music

Re: [Sursound] Volume question WRT 7.1 sound recorded at listening position. (dw)

2013-09-23 Thread Ken Landers
In years past, a number of systems has issues with intra-sample peaks. While a technical 0 dBFS cleared, the interpolated level between the peaks would cause distortion. From a best practices for broadcast point of view, my colleagues and I have just tried to steer clear of any overs,