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headroom: a standalone construct

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Audio engineering

Signal margin before clipping

In audio engineering, headroom is the margin between the nominal operating level of a signal and the point at which the system distorts or clips: the reserve, in decibels, available for unexpected peaks before the sound breaks up. Katz's Mastering audio: The art and the science treats headroom as central to gain structure, since too little invites clipping and too much buries the signal in noise. The referent is a level reserve measured in dB, not a physical overhead gap, though both name the clearance left before hitting a ceiling.[1]

Unit
The decibel margin between nominal level and the clipping or distortion point
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Expressed in decibels as the difference between the nominal operating level and the maximum undistorted level

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References

  1. Katz, B. (2007). Mastering audio: The art and the science (2nd ed.). Focal Press. ISBN 9780240808376

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