[linux-audio-user] Fwd: [Jamin] Re: soft clip: Achieving Gain, inconsequential overloads

[Robert Jonsson]

> >
> > Somebody else noted, I think it was Jan, that there
> > is 'rms'-normalization
> > also. In my mind that sounds more destructive.
>
> Is "rms" another method for calculating peaks? What
> does the acronym stand for? I see RMS in SWH SC4.
> Adjusting it across the full spectrum in the
> compressor seems to produce a very subtle audible
> difference, if any difference.

RMS - Root Mean Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square

It's basically averaging of values, I think :) ...I never was very good with 
math.

/Robert