Image of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/snare_drum" class="extiw" title="en:snare drum">snare drum</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient#Acoustics_and_Audio" class="extiw" title="en:Transient">transient</a> from "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffs_of_Dover_(song)" class="extiw" title="en:Cliffs of Dover (song)">Cliff of Dover</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Johnson" class="extiw" title="en:Eric Johnson">Eric Johnson</a> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Via_Musicom" class="extiw" title="en:Ah Via Musicom">Ah Via Musicom</a></i>, 1990), processed with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waves_L2_Ultramaximizer" class="extiw" title="en:Waves L2 Ultramaximizer">Waves L2 Ultramaximizer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/audio_level_compression" class="extiw" title="en:audio level compression">limiter</a> using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Audition" class="extiw" title="en:Adobe Audition">Adobe Audition</a> to boost the audio by 9dB without <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(music)" class="extiw" title="en:Clipping (music)">clipping</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/distortion" class="extiw" title="en:distortion">distortion</a>.  This image shows the amount of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/audio_level_compression" class="extiw" title="en:audio level compression">compression</a> that would result if such a process were applied to the recording in an amount required to achieve the loudness standard of current popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/compact_disc" class="extiw" title="en:compact disc">compact discs</a>.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kuuenbu" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:Kuuenbu">Kuuenbu</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a>
21 December 2006 (original upload date)
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