Haha.. Yes. One overshoot and its a block.. but there can not be any overshoots with my limiters. . True or not?? If this is true it means that recording hot automatically means you use the optimum amount of the available information.. Now all we need to do is get rid of the idea that a limiter destroys the signal. All it does is lowering the level when treshold is reached and still keeping the shape of the sine as orriginal as possible.. The louder the peak the more the limiter needs to lower the volume.. that is why limiting might and will affect the acoustic signal only in terms of volume compared to the non limited parts of the sine..
I read someone saying at -6db i already use all the bits. Can he explain that to me? That sounds interesting..
A quick summation / review.. IMO
-As far as I know dynamic range and the resolution in volume steps per sample is determained by the bit dept
Yes, buy expanding the range of accurate capture/reproduction in
the lower end of the signal. Not at the top end, not the stuff in between.
-Now all we need to do is get rid of the idea that a limiter destroys the signal.
Right. Fine. A little bit of clipping doesn’t have to be very audible, or ‘destructive’. You sacrifice a bit of waveform distortion tossed in to get your increased allowable level.
At extremely small reductions- you can have little amounts of the distortion, for little jump in level.
They are (more or less depending) changes...
Sonic hits’, or
preferred sound effects... Your choice.
I read someone saying at -6db i already use all the bits. Can he explain that to me? That sounds interesting.
I doubt that’s exactly accurate -don’t know actually. It would seem the top one bit could still be toggling on off?
The point is who cares? What’s important is the concept all the signal within the usable dynamic range of conversion -defined by ‘high enough’ above the conversion error stuff’- ('highly technical jargon) ...is accurately captured/reproduced.
You like the sound of it. Maybe at these amounts of limiting / opperating 'constantly / 'typically at the top range of all/most of your analog chain, fine too.
Me, no thank you.
I'll push it in the mix -how and when I want.
I don't want my tracks 'normalized' (going into a mix
I'll almost never need to put in gain trim but for a few tracks here or there (almost always to correct up not down.)
You can put them on almost all your tracks- to get back into The Zone!, then mix'.