But that has me wondering what happens to a track that needs to be scaled louder?
Hi Vorticity,
I have no technical knowledge to support this, but my experience is that it cuts back everything to the lowest common denominator. The volume reduction ranges from a lot to a little. While I used to set the volume at 35 in the early mornings with my wife still asleep I now go with 45. And my preferred average has gone from 55 to 65. I have found no example of increased volume.
Now the super naive question of the day. Can't someone use the data talked about on this thread for the computer to just automatically turn down the volume without any compression or limiting or whatever i.e. no loss in SQ. I mean a robot can vacuum my floor; surely it can turn down the volume. If I put my iPhone dB meter on my vacuum cleaner and put it in front of the volume knob? It seems so obvious to me, so I must be missing something.
Aloha,