Vinyl vs. CD audio level
AZ Nomad wrote:
I wasn't talking about compression, just gain. If 0db is the peak
level your recording medium can handle and you record vynyl, you're
very likely to have clicks and pops going up to 0db. If loudest
music level is down at -12db and you run a normalization filter,
you're going to get very poor results.
Which is why you use a suitable declicker and fix single click the large
ones.
It'll see the pops at 0db,
and do nothing. If you filter out the pops, then the normalizing
filter has a chance to bring the -12db music up to 0db.
As already mentioned 2.5 dB matches similar digital recordings well. It
requires multiband compression and intentional clipping to get audio as loud
as some current CD's are, and vinyl would end up sounding just as bad if it
was done.
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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