(sorry, forgot the prefix!)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2010 01:59, ypatios <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ypatios@gmail.com">ypatios@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
hello<br><br>i understand that for sound level representation in the digital domain, a special dB scale is used: The dB full scale (or dBFS). In this scale 0dB represents the maximum possible magnitude of a sample before clipping (e.g.: |x(n)|=1=0dBFS).<br>
I noticed the scale on the vu object and it seems it has an analog look, meaning it has some 12dB "headroom" above 0dB.<br>Now, in most audio software (editors like audacity, plug-ins etc..) level meters go usually to 0dB max, and there is just an indicator to notify when clipping occurs.<br>
<br>So what is the use of the analod style scale of vu?<br>Would it be meaningful to offset the incoming values to make use of the visual space above 0dB or would it mess up the scaling?<br><br>thanks :)<br><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">ypatios<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>ypatios<br>