derek holzer wrote on Tue, 20-Jan-2004: > Maybe I can rephrase this first part a bit for clarity.... > > derek holzer wrote: > > When I export to 16 bit, all my sessions end up clipped at -6 db. > > The files in question were actually a bit clipped at 0 db in Ardour, so > what I am seeing is actually a loss in gain. > > I know already that rendering from 32 bit to 16 bit means a 50% loss of > dynamic range. But what I found here was that this 50% loss also came > with a 50% loss of gain, as if the 50% was just sliced off the bottom. > If I know my audio theory well enough, isn't this one thing [besides > additional noise] that dithering is supposed to avoid? I just tried a 16 bit (no dither) export and the resulting file is identical to the output levels within ardour. Are you judging this via the meters in ardour? The only thing to watch out for within ardour, is to disable panning on stereo tracks (real ones) if you don't want the panning code to cut the level by 3dB. Can you explain your session and the exact process you are using to compare output levels, so we can eliminate experimental error? jlc ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-usersReceived on Tue Jan 20 17:31:33 2004
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