11-27-2020, 07:04 AM
both of those tracks have digital distortion. a limiter would prevent more than transient distortions like that, so i'd be shocked if there was a built-in limiter in os.
digital has a kind of automatic limiter though. it's like drawing a waveform on a sheet of paper, if you want to make the waveform really high (really loud) you run off the paper. if you then only look at the wave that's on the paper, the loudest parts are just the flat edges at the top and the bottom of the page. that's what happens when digital audio is too loud - the tops of the waves get cut off and turn into flat lines and you lose all of the audio information that was in the original sound. that's digital distortion, but that's also why there's a cap to how loud you can make digital audio, even without any limiter in place.
apologies if you know all this already!
digital has a kind of automatic limiter though. it's like drawing a waveform on a sheet of paper, if you want to make the waveform really high (really loud) you run off the paper. if you then only look at the wave that's on the paper, the loudest parts are just the flat edges at the top and the bottom of the page. that's what happens when digital audio is too loud - the tops of the waves get cut off and turn into flat lines and you lose all of the audio information that was in the original sound. that's digital distortion, but that's also why there's a cap to how loud you can make digital audio, even without any limiter in place.
apologies if you know all this already!