----- Original Message ----- > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > To: Martin <martin.pe...@sympatico.ca> > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:52 AM > Subject: Re: [PD] making puredata headphone-safe > > > 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.
Please try the following and see if you get different results: [noise~] | [*~ 999999] | [clip~ -1 1] | [*~ 0.01] (i.e. the Apple output mixing) | -Jonathan > > .hc > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that > period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, > for > Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
