Re: [Audacity-devel] Amplify is very noisy

[Leland <le...@au...>]

--On June 3, 2008 12:06:26 AM +0100 Martyn Shaw 
<mar...@go...> wrote:

> Hi Leland
>
> OK, so I know you claim to have no knowledge of signal processing, but
> this is above the level of 'trivial', so I forgive you!
>
:-)


> Now how did those values get there?  I deduce that your track is in
> 16-bit PCM mode before generating silence.  Also that you have the
> default 'shaped' pref set in the Quality pref for dither.
>
Yep, and yep.  Changing to float does not produce the "noise".

> You don't want to get into the maths of this!
>
Ahhh...  :-)

>
> This isn't a 'problem', it's by design.  It shouldn't go on any list
> of problems.
>
Good, cause I wasn't looking forward to it.

Thanks a heap!

Leland