[Eeyore]

Iain Churches wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
Iain Churches wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote:

Nor do PPMs catch peaks exactly either. They're based on metering
that is believed not to sound likes it's clipping, and a PPM won't
register momentary clips
either.

Peaking at -8dBFS there won't be any clipping:-)

How do you KNOW you're peaking at -8dBFS with a PPM ?

One can check this accurately by looking at the envelope as we
have already discussed.

And the ONLY way to do that meaningfully is with a wave editor.


The mixer's digital meters are sufficiently
accurate for mastering in particular when the test tones on the
pre-production master has be set up to -18dB with peaking level
as indicated -8dBFS. This is all pretty routine in mastering.

Define 'adequately accurate' please. You accept they may be flawed ?

Graham