XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: mrivers@d-and-d.com   
      
   On 11/19/2010 4:33 PM, Randy Yates wrote:   
      
   > If an RMS measurement needs to be made for a digital signal (i.e., on a   
   > digital mixing console or a ProTools plugin), what units are utilized? I   
   > thought they were dBFS, i.e., that dBFS was an RMS measurement.   
   > Apparently I am incorrect. Somebody please set me straight.   
      
   What, exactly, are you trying to do?   
      
   0 dBFS is a peak level. It can be only one sample long, and   
   you'll never come up with a useful RMS value for that. I   
   explained some instances where you'd know both the peak   
   level (full scale) and the RMS value of the waveform with   
   those peaks. But the two aren't really the same kind of   
   measurement.   
      
      
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