What is headroom in audio?
Headroom is the gap between the level a signal normally runs at and the loudest level the system can handle before it clips. Here is what it means in analogue gear, in a DAW and on Spotify.
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Gain staging in 32-bit float: what floating point fixed, and what it did not
A 32-bit float DAW mix bus is very hard to clip, and a 32-bit float field recorder can save a take that hit the red. But your converters, your analogue-modelled plugins and your meters still live in a world with a ceiling. Here is what changed, what still matters, and the habits worth keeping.
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