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Re: Digital Distortion

Subject: Re: Digital Distortion
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:25:37 -0700
>  > John V. Moore, you wrote,
>>
>>  >I must be missing something. I thought that normalizing just pushed al=
l
>>  >sounds up to the max of the loudest sound. So it raises the entire
>>  >"chorus" up to
>>  >the point where the loudest starts to "clip". So soft and loud things =
would
>>  >still be relatively "soft" and "loud". It is just like turning the
>>  >volume up or
>  > >down. Right?  I sure hope so.

DAN:
>  > Yes, that's correct, but why should a segment consisting of a soft
>>  ambient sound be raised up to the level of a loud sound?
>>

JOHN:
>BUT>>BUT..the loud sound will be raised to its peak and the soft ambient
>sound will be raised but only the same dB as the loud sound is
>raised. So the soft
>sound will NOT be raised to the same level as the loud sound. It will be
>raised the same dB, but not up to the same level. Right? Maybe we
>are saying the
>same thing?

What I meant was, a recording that consists -only- of a quiet ambience.

-Dan


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