Re: [SoX-users] toward floating-point?

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On Mar 05 11:35:50, Cory Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, robs <aq...@ya...> wrote:
> > From: Cory Nelson <ph...@gm...>
> > To: sox...@li...
> > Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012, 16:20
> > Subject: [SoX-users] toward floating-point?
> >
> > The more I play around with sox, the more annoying it is to constantly
> > guess what gain to apply to avoid clipping (-G doesn't work for
> > everything).
> >
> > Do you have an example?  There may be a fix or a work-around.
> >
> 
> Most recently I encountered this while using compand to prepare music
> for playing in a car.

It is quite easy to introduce clipping with compand.
Also, please show how exacty -G fails with compand.

> (As an aside, compand keeps giving me a warning
> that it expected a single channel but got two. Is this okay?)

Sigh. Show the exact full command line, show the exact full output.
Then someone can possibly look at it.