On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:07:08 -0500, Lord Hasenpfeffer
wrote:

Bob Cain wrote:

What is your measure of that whooping?

1 (one).

Waveform pictures tell nothing.

I was accused of clipping, limiting, compressing, and reducing the
dynamic range of my original WAVs by "normalizing" individual files or
"batch normalizing" whole groups of related files with the Linux
application known as "normalize".

My waveform pictures *do indeed* reveal that not one of these
accusations are true. Every single one of them is *false*.

You appear unable to understand the basics. You *cannot* increase the
average level of a piece of music (while avoiding clipping) without
affecting the dynamics of the piece. This is not simply a matter of
comparing the highest peak with the lowest trough, but of observing
the *transfer curve* which determines the relationship of loud and
quiet passages. In order to 'normalise' to a different average level,
you must be changing something, yes? If it's not a simple matter of
increasing the level of the entire CD (aka turning up the volume
control), then you are clearly messing with the internal dynamics, and
introducing a form of 'soft limiting'. This should be obvious.

If *you* like the sound of that, then fine, but please don't jump onto
this forum crowing that you've 'whopped the ass' of MFSL, because that
just makes you look like a brain-dead ten-year-old with a new toy.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering