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Re: M/S decoding help

Subject: Re: M/S decoding help
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:16 am (PDT)
maxfrick78 wrote:
>Hi Rob,
>wow, just 1% bit depth saturation? Can't you crank up the signal, or
>do you deal with
>signals so dynamic that you hit 0 dbFS if you boost them? That would
>be a dynamic range
>of more than 120 dB or so.. If remember correctly 24 bits-files have
>a signal-to-noise
>level of almost 140 dB!

If someone says a certain percentage of level, I assume they're
measuring on a linear scale, not a dB scale. DAW waveform displays
are linear-scaled.

1% is -40 dBFS, not terribly low even in a 16-bit recording.

-Dan Dugan




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