Please excuse my ignorance. Can someone please explain how you determine the usable dynamic range of a recording? The Rickie Lee Jones track has 0dB peaks. So do you just take RMS of the last few 10ths of sec of the fade out (referenced to 0dB or -3dB)? It seems that doing so gives a very high dynamic range so I assume you are doing something else?Or with the final fade-out . Ricki-Lee Jones has something about 30 dB usable dynamic range.
edit: so this is what I see on the fade out. The amplitude of the noise looks like it is about 0.00012 or less. Peak of the track is 1. 1/0.00012 = 8333 or about 78dB. I guess this isn't how it is done, though. How do you determine usable dynamic range?
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