<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Fons Adriaensen</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> escribio:</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>If you export to an integer file format anything above 0dB will
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>be clipped.
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>OTOH, if the export includes resampling then the peaks in the
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>exported file will be higher than those at the output of the
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>master strip. The difference will be small in most cases, but
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>in theory it is unbounded. Better keep a dB or so of headroom.</tt></pre></span>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My 2 cents:</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Keep -0.2db headroom minimum, or for the lazy/cautious: a peak limiter set at -0.2db on the master buss should do the trick. (I'm not a good engineer, so I fall into the second category).</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-0.2db seems to "hold" it's value better in most software that resamples. Anything higher will almost always end up clipped or limited, in an uncontrolled fashion - as Fons pointed out here, some peaks will invariably be sampled on either side and the software will just pin everything between the samples at 0db. Yuck. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I spent an afternoon last year comparing -0.2/-0.1/0.0db max, and I found this to be the case almost every time. Never had a stray peak at -0.2db</font></div>
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