"Lord Hasenpfeffer" wrote in message ...
Geoff Wood wrote:

--peak Adjust using peak levels instead of RMS levels. Each file will
be adjusted so that its maximum sample is at full scale. This
just gives a file the maximum volume possible without clipping;
no normalization is done.

What was that last line again?

What it is doubtlessly intended to say is "no compression is done". Hope
the coding is more concise that the manual.

I had *seen* clipping in various WAVs in my
WAV editor before but didn't know that what I was seeing was called
"clipping" because in my book at the time "clipping" was already being
used to describe "wrapping".

Wrapping ?? ... Around a bridge abutment, perhaps, as in a "train wreck".

preserving the
original dynamic range of uncompressed CD quality audio which never did
apply to my questions and concerns about MP3 encoding techniques.

It's time to re-post your so-called "mission statement".

Here you are again, saying that processing which takes place before encoding
is totally irrevelant, but I have just responded to a number of your posts where
you are making a big deal of it.

'Peak' is the most common method of normalisation.

From what I've been told recently, 'Peak' is the *only* form of
normalisation ....

That is NOT what you've been told, at least not by me.

and this so called 'RMS normalisation' (aka 'limitizing')
is a ******* child from audio hell. g???

It can be, but both are 'forms' of normalization.

As stated before, if normalising to average power values (especially
to the very high RMS level that you prefer all your music at),
compression is necessary if clipping is to be avoided.

Yes, I have just created an amimated GIF of U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday",
which clearly reveals this occurring. I have never disputed this *in
general*. What I *have* disputed it is in the *specific case* of the
MFSL "DSotM" CD which is mastered with *peaks so low* that I was able to
"RMS normalize" it to my preferred level and *still* not cause limiting,
compressing or clipping of any kind to occur.

But this is supposedly irrelevant to your purpose.

you found
justification to dig your knives in and tear that thread even further
apart with your baseless claims.

What baseless claims? We are essentially talking about encoding
but we are *forced* by you to discuss what goes on beforehand, as it
directly effects your "hypothesis" that normalizing files changes the
frequency content that is preserved on MP3. It does not, it merely
changes the amplitude of the file that is acted on in the same manner
by the codec.

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