[LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:11:24PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> > multiplying two floats will introduce a rounding error in the least
> > significant bit. that means it adds noise. at a level of -144dBFS.
> 
> Yes, depends on the range of the signal.  It will be ~ -144dBFS if the
> input signal is full range 0dB.  It will be considerably less if the
> signal is less.  Although ears might have a dynamic range of over
> 120dB, they have considerably less dynamic depth (only 30dB or so in a
> critical band, not sure of the full-band figure).
> 
> > that means people will lose significant imaging clarity of the two
> > mosquitoes fucking on their mike windscreen during the recording of that
> > starting space shuttle. end of the world!
> 
> Mosquitos are *considerably* louder than what we're talking about!
> 

I would like someone to post a sample of two mosquitoes fucking on Freesound.

-ken