On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:53 +0200, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Two points:
- You don't readjust the master continuously, but you don't add/remove sources on the fly either. You adjust the master in the beginning when you setup your system, but the reason you can do that is because you know exactly what sources you will have and what kinds of levels those sources generate.
That's "more "more"" or less true. But regarding to PA, PA can't have all this information ;). Yep, it's your argument, that what PA does is correct. You aren't completely wrong. I still vote for "headroom" and a classical analog style. Or much better "self responsibility", sorry, I couldn't resist. Use jackd, read the ffffffffff manual and control audio streams yourself. Automation always tends to fail. YMMV! Ralf