17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
4:09 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:56:08PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
Depends on what you call 'over-compressing'. If you're
using heavy compression to squeeze out the last dB on
material that is already high level most of the time
you're right.
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'.
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Note that the result is *not* the 'average
RMS' level
but the maximum RMS over any 1 second period.
In fact I think that's even more what I'd want. I'm trying to figure out
if I over-compress my audio, and to that end soft passages don't really
count...