On Aug 23, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Martin wrote:
On 23/08/11 03:29 PM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
I've managed to hurt my ears twice over the past two days when
using PD w/ headphones. Even at lowest system volumes, it seems
that Terrible Things can happen. Are there any precautions that I
can take to make it feel less like I'm taking my life into my hands
when I have to use headphones?
Try making a [noise~] connected directly to a [dac~] and set the
headphone volume so you can live with that. Nothing will ever be
louder than that.
Hmm, I don't think that's actually true in all cases. On a MacBook
Pro running Mac OS X, I've had the volume set to one above mute, but
had massive feedback from LPC patches that were very very loud.
[noise~] would be very comfortable at that volume setting. I think
some platforms do the output mixing in the digital domain, so my min
volume would be [*~ 0.01], so that this would still make a very loud
sound:
[noise~]
|
[*~ 999999]
|
[*~ 0.01] (i.e. the Apple output mixing)
|
In this particular case, the sound output actually gets shutdown
entirely, so you have to reboot to get sound output again.
.hc
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