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IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:36 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:No matter how nice thier D/A of choice

Actually, the better quality the DAC the more likely it is to cope gracefully with high ISPs levels that might cause problems with budget setups or mp3 encoding. ie: its more important to check ISP levels, not less.

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:45 pm

IIRs wrote:
Dean Aka Nekro wrote:No matter how nice thier D/A of choice
Actually, the better quality the DAC the more likely it is to cope gracefully with high ISPs levels that might cause problems with budget setups or mp3 encoding. ie: its more important to check ISP levels, not less.

Indeed (I thought this was sort of common knowledge tbh). How about i suggest that a quick trip over to this place and download all the pdf's that are under the 'white papers' banner?

http://www.lavryengineering.com/index_html.html

BUT FIRST off grab these two:

http://www.hhb.co.uk/files/.../technica ... _33934.pdf

www.tcelectronic.com/media/level_paper_aes109.pdf

All free and good reads

All the best

Dean

Edit: Here is good also:

http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/200 ... ering.html

Fritze · Post by **Fritze** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:53 pm

IIRs wrote:
chacka wrote:You just paraphrazed what Compyfox wrote, too. Cool.
No, I don't think I did. You might take the DAC into account to decide what level of ISPs to permit. But you then need an ISP meter to determine whether your specific material meets those criteria or not.

Haha, it can be so easy to misunderstand people in the interwebz! I understood that you basically were talking about the same thing. But surely we all agree that ISPs can bring technical problems when they're present. It's definitely worth to avoid them.
Good luck for your teeth!

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:58 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:
Kim Lajoie wrote:Just so I don't get painted as a metalhead, sometimes I actually do master lower than 0dBfs and I do pay attention to intersample peaks. I do it that way for projects that can't tolerate any distortion, and require a smooth clean sound. Often they're the more sparse and dynamic projects.

-Kim.
Nothing wrong with us metalheads Kim at all

Haha, sorry about that! I was just being flippant.

-Kim.

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:43 pm

Ah no problems/nothing taken personally at all Kim, I was being light hearted as i usually am regarding my 'objection'

and yeah i would be lying if i said as a general statement i did not agree/is a fact - Being realistic

Dean

Where do you "master" to? (what dB)