Re: Threshold parameter in Transient Mangler
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:51 pm
Effects that end with "..." have an interface for user settings.DickN wrote:Why do so many effect names end with "..."?
Effects without "..." have no user interface (for example "Fade In" and "Fade Out") and they just do something immediately.
The "..." indicates that there is something to follow (a user interface).
Yes, if the input goes over 0 dB the algorithm does very nasty things - worse than hard clipping.DickN wrote:The only negative I have on it is I wish it didn't clip @ 0dB input, but your writeup does warn us about that. I guess if it were simple to avoid that, it would have been avoided.
If there is just the odd sample above 0 dB, hard clipping does little harm.
Usually the effect would be used after compression, so that should ensure that the peaks do not exceed 0 dB. If not then the user should Normalize prior to limiting.
The main problem with trying to cope with 0 dB within the effect is that it then becomes very mysterious what the effect is actually doing and can cause surprising effects.