On 11/19/2010 4:33 PM, Randy Yates wrote:
If an RMS measurement needs to be made for a digital signal (i.e., on a
digital mixing console or a ProTools plugin), what units are utilized? I
thought they were dBFS, i.e., that dBFS was an RMS measurement.
Apparently I am incorrect. Somebody please set me straight.
What, exactly, are you trying to do?
0 dBFS is a peak level. It can be only one sample long, and
you'll never come up with a useful RMS value for that. I
explained some instances where you'd know both the peak
level (full scale) and the RMS value of the waveform with
those peaks. But the two aren't really the same kind of
measurement.
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