Output on the guitar was about 3/4 max, gain on the Zoom almost nothing This is recorded with a stereo headphone jack sending L&R directly to the two inputs of a ZoomH4N. This is a very short recording to demonstrate the range of sound.

My fault entirely so replaced the cable and retested. Placed the board properly, put the pots and covers back on, tuned the bass to record some tests - and discovered an intermittent break in the connection to the output socket. Hooked it all up and did a quick test with everything electrically connected but not put back - excellent. Were Paul White to ask for these ramblings to be turned into a publishable thousand word column by Wednesday, that would require a huge gain increase,which would have to be followed by suitable calming activities.įinally pushed real life out of the way for long enough to reconnect the board and the bass. Taking the analogy further, messing about on this subject in a forum is low peak, and reduces overall LUFS. But if in order to achieve it we have to deal with screaming kids, broken cars and wasps this is the equivalent of too much gain (and probably bad eq but we can work on that later), leading too excessive peaks.

A nice picnic with friends should have low peak stress, and so contribute little to the integrated LUFS.

I think you have hit on something fundamental there. In this 'real life' thing, these events are therefore rejuvenating and allow proper context for these otherwise unpleasant peaks, so I guess things like time pottering on the DAW, playing an instrument (with the possible exception of bagpipes), a nice picnic etc contribute a reduction in the overall LUFS value? significantly reduce the total LUFS figure - sort of akin to sorting out the gain structure to find more sensible headroom and space for proper dynamic range. It's rather tenuous (turns out 'real life' may not be quite as simple as audio signals ), but it's worth persevering with if it provides (pseudo)scientific justification for the more fun things

Thus negative units significantly reduce the total LUFS figure - sort of akin to sorting out the gain structure to find more sensible headroom and space for proper dynamic range. If high amplitude events drag the LUFS rating up and are unpleasant/grating, then these are surely the tiresome bits of this traumatic 'real life' concept - work, bills, supermarkets full of angry sunburned people etc. In which case negative units would imply something very strange that I can't quite think of an analogy for. Dr R wrote:I was thinking more that if there were too many constant peaks at high amplitude it was unpleasant and grating.

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