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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_vis_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by pqyt -If a test file is published as -20dbFS, shouldn't that be rendered at -20dBFS?Depends who published it and what it's meant to show. For example the sine waves from soundonsound have peaks at -20 dBFS so showing peaks at -20 dBFS is very valid. True RMS for such sine is 3 dB lower, -23 dB, 'RMS+3' display would be -20 dB.
If you want a *dB* reading and rendering, activate the RMS+3 toggle.
When the toggle is off, you show 'RMS+3' values. When it's enabled you show RMS+3+3 dB. And adding the FS for full scale is just an accuracy increase, because dB alone doesn't tell what it is relative to. All values are of course relative to the digital full scale.I have no new arguments and you still haven't convinced me. Maybe @misio can shed some light on the situation. He/She has been pushing me in the other direction. I don't care either way. But I can't follow 2 different expert opinions at the same time.