Re: [LAU] Gain and clipping wav -> lame

Thanks again. Things are looking much better now. I embraced the concept of not being able to predict this. Turns out I have old screwed up things that really benefitted from revisiting them and cleaning them up. Marc Lavall??e wrote on Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:45:48PM -0400: That works. Comes in the Debian ebumeter package, BTW. But how do I translate the output to a required db or ratio adjustment? I have a file in front of me that was maxed out amplitude wise by somebody else. According to lame I needed --scale 0.64 to get it not to clip in lame (should be 3.9 db). Which, BTW was not the value it first estimated that I would need. ebur128 --lufs: Integrated loudness: -4.9 LUFS Loudness range: 5.5 LU Integrated threshold: -13.0 LUFS Range threshold: -25.0 LUFS Range min: -8.6 LUFS Range max: -3.1 LUFS Momentary max: -1.2 LUFS Short term max: -2.4 LUFS I don't see that any of the value correspond with what lame needed to not clip over a collection of different loudness clips. (means: some clips that needed less --scale have higher numbers here and others have lower) I assume the ebumeter output is more for making things sound even (between different pieces) and not directly a tool to max out anything, is that right? Martin