Re: [linux-audio-user] Peak Level Monitor/Limiting

Dragan Noveski wrote:
> i think, recording at low level, you are kind of "loosing disc space".
> lets say, if you are recording at 24bit, on low level the signal
> information will take only 12 bit (example) and the rest of 12 bit
> will be only empty data information.
> don't think that one can repair that with some gain plugin or
> normalization...
Depends on the file format.

If using IEEE754 floating-point, your data should have been normalized
before it sent to disc - so you lose nothing (although if you're using a
flush-to-zero mode for FP arithmetic you may introduce crossover
distortion).

cheers
R
Received on Fri Mar 30 12:15:03 2007