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Dragan Noveski wrote:

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> i think, recording at low level, you are kind of "loosing disc space".

> lets say, if you are recording at 24bit, on low level the signal

> information will take only 12 bit (example) and the rest of 12 bit

> will be only empty data information.

> don't think that one can repair that with some gain plugin or

> normalization...

Depends on the file format.

If using IEEE754 floating-point, your data should have been normalized

before it sent to disc - so you lose nothing (although if you're using a

flush-to-zero mode for FP arithmetic you may introduce crossover

distortion).
cheers

R