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Recently I purchased Soundsource for Mac OS, which has little level meters that show whether the signal from a specific application is clipping or not. I was using it as the host for a parametric EQ plugin so I could utilise Oratory1990's useful target curves (e.g. Sennheiser HD58x - https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr0t5bm0g9h167t/Sennheiser HD58X.pdf?dl=0)
I noticed that with Tidal set to 'force max volume' Soundsource was showing clipping on its level meters with certain tracks. And I was noticing some distortion as well. The reason I came across this at all was because I was applying oratory1990's harman target EQ curve for my HD58x using Soundsource + AUNBandEQ; and even with the parametric EQ global gain at -5.5 per oratory's advice I was noticing potential for clipping on some tracks post-EQ.
One solution was to set Tidal's "loudness normalisation" to on (I had switched it off though it is on by default) and this drops max volume to something like 0.56 or so of its normal max of 1 - I think this is their version of unity gain? And obviously no clipping any more.
Has anyone noticed Tidal clipping at max volume?
After a bit of googling I noticed someone else had posted about this a while back on a different forum but didn't get any replies - they might explain it better than I have (https://www.macosaudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52145&p=380745)
I noticed that with Tidal set to 'force max volume' Soundsource was showing clipping on its level meters with certain tracks. And I was noticing some distortion as well. The reason I came across this at all was because I was applying oratory1990's harman target EQ curve for my HD58x using Soundsource + AUNBandEQ; and even with the parametric EQ global gain at -5.5 per oratory's advice I was noticing potential for clipping on some tracks post-EQ.
One solution was to set Tidal's "loudness normalisation" to on (I had switched it off though it is on by default) and this drops max volume to something like 0.56 or so of its normal max of 1 - I think this is their version of unity gain? And obviously no clipping any more.
Has anyone noticed Tidal clipping at max volume?
After a bit of googling I noticed someone else had posted about this a while back on a different forum but didn't get any replies - they might explain it better than I have (https://www.macosaudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52145&p=380745)