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Old 03-02-2021, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by cleeds View Post
I think that's the commonly accepted definition. The same applies to other things, such as analog tape, where dynamic headroom is the extent to which you can briefly exceed nominal "0 VU."
It's not quite that. It is an "envelope" into which a recording engineer should fit the recorded signal. One does not want to exceed it and go into a clipping zone as that is distorted signal. https://youtu.be/7ZAYSeGgy-I
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