Understood, if you mean 0 dBFS - I was thinking 0 VU...
I love the peak/average metering on the Sound Devices 7xx series. Seems
to catch those short spikes.
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Sep 10, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Walter Knapp wrote:
> When I refer to 0dB, I'm actually referring to that reading on the
> portadisc's meters. I do know from actual experiment that reading is
> really close to the clipping level if not on it. To be avoided always.
>
> Because most metering is set up with a certain ballistics (to imitate
> the behavior of older mechanical metering) there are peaks that exceed
> what we see on our meters as they are too fast or too infrequent.
> Avoiding clipping those is part of why we set to give some headroom on
> the metering. On the portadisc, even the peak hold reading is not the
> top of the sharpest peaks. I also do set based on expected callers and
> caller distance. Cricket frogs, for instance may exceed the meter
> reading by 10-15dB.
>
> Walt
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