[LAU] Too loud (aka "Red" zone) - how much dB

[Arnold Krille]

Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb Peteris Krisjanis:
> I am helping to code small sound editor and we will have waveforms.
> However, we need to know what constitutes too loud, aka after how much
> dB we can do a cut off in waveform and putting red stage in mixer? Any
> hints how everyone is dealing with this?

In the digital world, everything above the available integer-range (on input 
and output) makes distortion. As this int-range is normally converted to the 
double/float-range [-1,1], abs(signal) == 1 is normally considered as 0dB and 
all the volume is measured in negative deziBel.

But in the gui I wouldn't cut off the values. It can very well be that the 
mixing-stages after the guis data are scaling/limiting the signal to values 
in the valid range. Just make them red so everyone is aware of the potential 
problems...

Have fun,

Arnold
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