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Originally Posted by fenderbender.

Many mastering studios run the signal from the A/D immediately to disk. Take a CD that was mastered by Vlado Meller and watch the levels on a Dorrough digital meter. Red lights all over the place! I don't know whether he had his L2 output ceiling set to 0.0dB, or didn't have any brickwall limiter in place prior to his recording DAW, but there are obviously many, many consecutive full-scale samples.

Someone was telling me the other day that they had called Sony about a ref. that he had done, and asking why it was clipped. The person at the studio said something like "yeah, we have this Sony meter that just sits up there and flashes; nobody uses it"

(FYI - the meter in question is the Sony DMU-30)

Thanks