dcollins wrote on Thu, 08 October 2009 19:59 |
Cass Anawaty wrote on Thu, 08 October 2009 13:15 | Can I get a "bottom line"?
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D/A or sampling rate conversion can create signals greater than 0dBFS.
DC
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Thanks DC,
I do not have experience with these 0dBFS overs, however since it would appear that the 0dBFS indicators would most likely draw attention to their actual status, do these types of outputs somehow get missed or is this one form of max loudness anomaly?
I am new to this forum and from what I can tell, so far, the folks here are very savy regarding, at least, the technical side of things, especially gain/level, etc.
While I am presently engaged as an artist/composer (electric violin), this is my first foray doing it itb.
Now, I do have
some knowledge regarding a wide variety of fields in proaudio and I believe that observing digital peak meters in Sonar, eventhough the updating of those meters is somewhat slow, I tend to generally track at about -20 dBFS and in the master out meters, before any compression or other treatments, with all of the cumalitive gain from tracks, I still target for about -9 to -6 dBFS at the master buss.
So, I assume that if there are no overs, then there are none, correct?
However, at the mastering stage, if the end result at the master out is close to 0dBFS, is it possible to have overs that do not display, or is it a matter of the right meters/software?
I will be attempting to master my own material.
I think that some here may find that to be a little pre-mature, but nevertheless, I expect to get good results.
After auditioning many commercial CDs on a fairly high-end system throughout many years, I can state confidently that many of them are not very good and yet those recordings are mastered and handled through the major labels... this is not an area that I am familiar with, that is, how top pop artists proceed engineering/mastering/dup.