<<You are correct, under almost all conditions, there is no longer a
need to attain close to maximum saturation levels for the sake of
decreasing noise. Recordist can take advantage of the much improved
noise performance of digital recorders over analog tape and record
peaks at much lower levels without issue.>>
Although noise is no longer much of an issue with low level recording,
the one drawback to under-recorded tracks is a lack of visual
resolution for editing purposes. Locating edit points visually when
the waveform has no vertical component or the extremely pixellated
rendering with maximum vertical magnification just makes for an
unnecessarily tedious editing task. Thus I try to get well modulated
levels, even with very quiet ambiences.
Scott Fraser
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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