On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:46:35 -0500, Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote:

Geoff Wood wrote:

Radio stations have been *restricting dynamics* for decades.

http://www.mykec.com/mykec/images/Su...Sunday_012.gif

0) Original WAV
1) "Normalize" (default -12dBFS)
2) "Normalize" (default -10dBFS)

Where is the evidence of this gawd-awful *restriction of dynamics* of
which you accuse me of wreaking against my WAVs?

Right in front of your eyes! It shows absolutely that you are
compressing the original. If you can't see it you really don't know
what you are looking for.


Clues:

Left channel peaks at .55 and .58 mins retain relationship to lower
peaks. No compression.

Left channel peak just before 2.5. Look at the slightly lower peak just
before that one on top of waveform. See how it gets closer to the value
of the higher peak on the two higher level waveforms. What do you think
we could call this phenomenon?

See also grosser example on left channel lower waveform at 4.37 and
4.55.

Thanks for providing such a classic example of how wrong you are.

While there is no scale, I can guess what it is, and this also shows
that the highest peaks in the original are pretty close to full scale,
perhaps a couple of dBs down, indicating that there is precious little
room for REAL normalisation to maximum level anyway.