Dan, thanks for making that clear..
Rob, I see your point, on a 16 bit-recording medium a medium level of -40dB=
FS should be
okay but does not feel like a very comfortable saturation. If recording in =
24 bits it should
be fine, you would still have a higher signal to noise ratio than on a full=
y saturated 16 bit
recording. At least that's what theory says. Maybe you should really make t=
hat 16/24 bit
comparison.
max
--- In Rob Danielson <> wrote:
>
> At 10:40 AM -0700 7/11/06, Dan Dugan wrote:
> >
> >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
> >
>
> Yes, on a DAW, 1% linear scale and -38 to -40dBFS. The Triplett sound
> meter I can borrow doesn't give me very reliable readings below 35dB
> but I'm guessing the background sound levels involved were 20-25dB (A
> weighted). Now that I've have a recorder that records at both 16 and
> 24, I really should make an A/B comparison test using levels of this
> scale. Rob D.
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