I'm only 629.3 Db in the red

[ManFromGlass]

I opened a UAD patch in Logic and suddenly - - - -



Glad I wasn't wearing the headphones at the time!

[resistorman]

you wouldn't need anything plugged in to hear that if was a real number!

[Hugh Robjohns]

Whats the point of headroom if you don't use it now and again...

[ajay_m]

Apparently Krakatoa was 'only' 310dB and anyone within 10 miles of the eruption would apparently have been rendered instantly deaf.

[RichardT]

This facility can generate sound levels of 156dB. It’s the loudest sound generator in Europe….

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/S ... 0m%20high.

Krakatoa is supposed to have generated about 310dB, so your 629dB would probably require a new Big Bang.

[ef37a]

This facility can generate sound levels of 156dB. It’s the loudest sound generator in Europe….

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/S ... 0m%20high.

Krakatoa is supposed to have generated about 310dB, so your 629dB would probably require a new Big Bang.

I don't know how they arrived at that figure? AFAIK the loudest sound you can have is about 194dB which is one Bar and so the 'negative' part is a vacuum.

But then there are "blast waves" that move faster than sound?

There used to be a guy in HFNews called Rex Baldock that wrote very interesting pieces about things like this...seems nobody cares much about science any more?

Dave.

[Hugh Robjohns]

If we take the average atmospheric pressure as 1 Bar, that's equivalent to 194dB SPL.

So a sound wave larger than 194dB SPL will reach full vacuum on the negative (rarefaction) peaks and essentially clip.

However, the positive peaks can continue to compress the air and 310dB SPL is going to create a half-wave rectified signal the equivalent of a staggering 632,455 Bar (or over 9 million PSI) of pressure....which is going to do a lot of damage.

If my maths is right, thats the roughly the same pressure as being 4000 miles under the sea!!! (The deepest ocean trench is only about 7 miles or 11km, and about 1,086 bar of pressure).

[IAA]

If my maths is right, thats the roughly the same pressure as being 4000 miles under the sea!!! (The deepest ocean trench is only about 7 miles or 11km, and about 1,086 bar of pressure).

And which compressor was being used!

[Brian M Rose]

I seem to remember 'Disaster Area' the loudest rock band in the Galaxy in The Hitch Hickers Guide to the Universe. Could this be it?

[Matt Houghton]

Whats the point of headroom if you don't use it now and again...

That's also eating at least into the shoulders and torso room, though, and probably as far as the ankles.

[Wonks]

If you're 629.3dB in the red, I hope the bank let you pay it off at say 20dB per month over 3 years (including interest).

[Hugh Robjohns]

[ManFromGlass]

Oh I’ve paid those dB off many times over in the loud and perhaps not proper language I have used while on hold with the banks!
I sure hope they can’t record what people are saying while on hold . . . .



Also
so kind of you’se not to laugh that I put D flat instead of dB

[tea for two]

I seem to remember 'Disaster Area' the loudest rock band in the Galaxy in The Hitch Hickers Guide to the Universe. Could this be it?

Could well be.
Another contender : Spinal Tap.

[amanise]

Have THAT 32 bit float files!!

[Sam Inglis]

I'm surprised that some enterprising plug-in developer hasn't attempted to model the uniquely warm sound of acoustic clipping.

[amanise]

Well I think if I were to develop a handy all in one gain staging plugin - that would be the result.

[Zukan]

Rees Mogg's claim that Brexit was a winner is actually louder than that.

[jaminem]

Rees Mogg's claim that Brexit was a winner is actually louder than that.

I was gonna do a joke, but you've already won the internet for the whole of today.

[Hugh Robjohns]

Rees Mogg's claim that Brexit was a winner is actually louder than that.