29 May
2004
29 May
'04
8:46 a.m.
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:35:02 -0700, R Parker wrote:
I would think 6dB would be in - its a psychoacostic effect, humans cant
detect the harmonic distortion from clipping at very short durations (< 1
ms or so I think).
In any case it would definatly be an option, the extra headroom isn't
always desirable, and it might be audible under certian circumstances.
- Steve
I suspect it
should have a peak allowance mode,
which ignores very short
peaks at over 0dB and clips them.
That does seem like an interesting feature. The job
I'm working on now has transient spikes that are
probably +6.0dbfs above the average. I used the TAP
Scaling Limiter post fader to deal with them. This
does a good job.
Do you imagine that spikes of this extreme are beyound
the scope of the peak allowance mode?
I assume they are. Otherwise, we're probably dealing
with something that's aggresive enough to become
audible if the user isn't able to adjust it. I don't
really know and am simply speculating.