Thanks for the clearanceTarekith wrote:Not neccesarily. The common issue is intersample modulation distortion, well it's not common so much anymore, but that's the main one you see discussed. Anyway, the basic premise is that even if you keep the audio signal at or below 0dBFS in your studio, it's possible for the consumer's D/A to misinterpret multiple max sample values as being a waveform higher than 0dB. So while you can't clip above 0dB digitally, the D/A will create a waveform greater than 0dB and the analog stage of the D/A then clips. We're talking microseconds here, but with all the heavy limiting that goes on in today's music, that adds up. That's one reason most professional mastering engineers will NEVER set the final output of the mastering chain higher than say -0.3 to -0.1dBFS, to avoid the potential for this happening.thefool wrote:now i'm going to say something here which might sound stupid but isn't that just clipping on your own gear? I mean seriously if you keep it under clipping point and run it through whatever won't it sound as it should? I know we discussed CD players before.
Like the whole "digital is harsh" campaign, it's more an issue with older DAC's than anything recent, but it can happen there too in some cases. Considering it's only 0.1dBFS you need to lower the level to prevent this, better safe than sorry. Personally I use 0.2 myself.
Yeah i know a german engineer telling me to keep it at -0.3 due to many cd players and low quality units might begin to introduce clipping already at that point (or rather he told me to keep it under 0, and that -0.3 was a good suggestion)
