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Default 0dBFS+ Levels in Digital Mastering

On 13/10/2015 2:25 a.m., Scott Dorsey wrote:
geoff wrote:
No CD that I've purchased in the last decade exhibit clipping that I've
noticed, though a few are over-compressed to hell (not many
fortunately). And some I've been prompted to actually check ! Not much
'current' pop though I concede.

The problem is that in the digital world, clipping is whatever you define
it as. I tend to set metering so three consecutive FS samples light the
over light, and so that is clipping.



I draw the line at 2, though 3 seems to be the commonly accepted criteria.

geoff