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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> I think this version proves that the exporter in ardour3 is not adding any

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> distortion,

Nobody ever claimed it did, AFAICS.
> my sound cards are not broken
It doesnt prove anything of the sort. Exporting doesn't depend on your

sound card. It just goes through the entire mix in freewheel mode and

writes the result to a soundfile.
To verify you soundcard the only way is to measure it.
> and that spending some quality

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> time on the levels is a worthwhile exercise.

This is certainly true, but I fail to see what's your problem here.

If you want to raise the average to peak ratio use a fast lookahead

limiter. This will also allow you to be it bit more relaxed during

mixing as any small overloads will be taken care of automatically.

If you want the maximum technical level (which is an entirely different

issue) in the output, avoid clipping and normalise the result. 
AFAICS, the only problem with the export-then-normalise procedure in

Ardour is that normalising after export to 16-bit with dithering will

remove most of the benefits of dithering. It's probably irrelevant

given the type of music you produce. 
Ciao,
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FA
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