14 Jan
2005
14 Jan
'05
7:15 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:08:20AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 03:03, Jon B wrote:
Well, theres a difference between the format clipping and the DA
converters clipping, the DA converts will always (I guess ;) clip at 0dB,
but the format may or not, fixed point and floating point formats can go
well above 0dB to capture those transient peaks or sudden load passages
that might otherwise be lost.
Not an issue if your just recording from external imputs, but if you do
inmachine processing it can be very helpful.
- Steve
For some reason I was under the impression that
W64 was used because
it saved 32-bit floating point data and therefore didn't clip; not
Every soundformat can clip, the reason is not within soundformats but within
the analog-digital-converters. These little nice boxes convert some
continuous signal ranging from min to max into discret digital values.
Everything above max and below min can not be resolved and gets the values of
max/min and therefor sounds clipped.