[LAU] measuring "average RMS"

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Wed Mar 17 19:22:17 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 20:05 +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:

> OTOH, compressing a classical piece from 40dB dynamic
> range to just a few dB is certainly 'over-compressing'
> to my taste, yet it would probably make little or no
> differerence to the value measured by 'normalize -n'.

Maybe what would be good is a thing that displays a histogram of dynamic
range, so you can see the spread of loudness in a sample.

Gordon MM0YEQ



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