Tag: LEVEL AND LOUDNESS

General – Fletcher invented the Reference 1kHz Test-Tone Calibration Method, so All Frequencies are Linear at 1000Hz – Most Engineers Passing References to the Fletcher Munson Curve – it is a Graph that Reflects How the Frequency Response of Human Hearing is Different at Different Overall Loudness Levels – Human Hearing is Never Flat, there…

– Used only in Digital Systems – Fast Response with a Integration Time of 5ms  – Intended to reflect when Digital Distortion will occur – Measures in dBFS – The Maximum Value in a Digital Scale is 0dBFS – often a Programs Fader Range goes from 0dBFS Down to -96dB (Wavelab, Dualism etc.) 

General Headroom in Recording Headroom in Mixing

– Gives you the Overall / Average Loudness of a Whole Program – i.e. Collects the Integrated Loudness for a Whole Program and Works therefore Very Slow – The Standard Measurement Test Nowadays when Songs are Broadcasted in the Future – i.e. a Radio Stations Equipment automatically Measures Songs “On the Fly” and Turn their…

General – Imagine a 16 Bit File with Full Resolution Samples that actually Misses the Peaks in the Audio, so when the Audio is Re-Constructed the Peaks then Added Could at least be 3dB Higher than the Sample we had Not Take – so if we Work Closer to a Digital Headroom (e.g. Towards -1…

General – works more like our Ears work  – has Psychoacoustic Effect Build-In, means the System is Not based on simple “Metering” – Shifts the Metering Scale Down, so the “Zero” Point (0dFS) you Concentrate on lies at the Specified Level (-12dB,-14dB, or -20dB) – The Top of the Scale stays 0dBFS, so reaching that…