On Nov 1, 2018, at 11:27, Cowboy <c...@cwf1.com> wrote: > *THIS* is why 12 db or more of headroom is a good idea. > Personally, I would not have chosen 13, because I prefer even numbers, but any > "reasonable" number should be fine.
There’s been lots of debate about this over the years. Many American vendors have standardized with -12, whereas our friends over the Atlantic seem to favor -18 or even -20. In Rivendell, the ‘reference level' is actually -16 dBFS (that being the ‘0’ point on Rivendell’s audio meters). That number was chosen mostly because a certain proprietary automation system to which I had access at the time (ca. 2002) used it as well, thus making it easy to use audio from that system for test cases. Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of | | by its author. | | -- S.C. Johnson | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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