20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
12:17 a.m.
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 19:00 +0000,
linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote:
Almost all of my recording is 'classical'
music which does not
require high average level or invasive compression. But even
using conservative average levels (mostly EBU loudness based
these days), that doean't mean that you can't get a signal that
peaks above 0 dB. It may happen just 0.01% of the time, but it
happens. And such short peaks are no good reason to lower the
average level, and limiting them to avoid clipping is completely
transparent, so I always use a limiter in the master bus.
I experienced this 0.01% of the time margin is overstepped as not being
audible. YMMV Overstepping 0 dBFS not always cause audible results.
Most times I'm not using a limiter, sometimes I'm using a limiter for
the master bus too, but I don't think that it's a good thing doing this,
usually a limiter does destroy the sound.
Anyway, the context was about using the limiter as a very active
plug-in, while you're talking about the limiter as something that will
be active in the worst case szenario, 0.01% of the times ;).
but none of them would produce such
gratituous nonsense as what you write above.
It's hard for you to understand the context of speech? :D
2 Cents,
Ralf