On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:30:34AM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:00PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >>marcus.blumhagen@web.de wrote: > >> > >>>>3. On a machine, I exported a portion of the captured audio to a wav > >>>>file (basically, saved a portion of the input). I then transfered it > >>>>to my home computer running Debian. While that sound wave file was > >>>>shown between +1 and -1 in the original machine, on my home machine is > >>>>was being shown between +0.5 and -0.5 in audacity. What gives? > >>>>[...] > >>>How did you transfer the WAV? Did you do any more processing to it? > >>>Was it burnt to CD and maybe normalized on the fly? > >>I exported as wav from aucacity, transfered it to my home computer (via > >>scp) and opened that wav file in audacity. I don't think there any kind > >>of processing going on during the exporting the au file to wav. > >> > >what if you open the wav on the original machine. does it also show > >the lower levels? or not? > > Very interesting point. It is showing the audio wave between +-0.5 there > as well (on the machine). I wonder how this came about to be. some normalization is obviously happening in the export to .wav. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want the un-normalised data, you'll probably have to leave it in aud format until you get aroundt to mixing/editing or whatever. Of course, you need to fix that saturation/clipping situation anyway, so maybe its not really a problem? A
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