Hi Rob,
So are you saying that the two numbers you get with the alt+a peak
announcement are the positive and negative peaks?
I thought they were the left and right channel positive peaks!
smiles,
Phil who should know more about audio editing but doesn't.
Neal:
The answer is that you need to look at the positive and the negative peak. They normally don't match, and the one with the largest value is used to determine the normalize offset. I'll bet your negative peak in this case was very close to 0 to begin with. That would explain the clipping when forcing the positive value to 0dB.
Note: this is normal; all audio programs work this way.
Rob Meredith
neal.ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/23/06 02:31PM >>>Rob, On several occasions when using SR, I normalize a file to 0 DB and when I check the measurements, the positive peak is something like minus 3.2 or something like that. When I raise the volume to 0 with the volume module, the file is distorted. If I undo the volume change and try normalizing again, I am told that the file is already at the level I have set. It is often a mono file. I know there is an answer here, I just don't know what it is. I bet, however, that you do. So, may we have your wisdom on this one?
Neal
