curiosity

Hi all! A question, just curious : I wonder how PT handles the fader sequence... I explain : Imagine you have a sine as a signal on track #1. You turn the volume of that track very low. Thus the sine should start resemblimg stairs because of the lower dynamic, ok? (it's like dicreasing the bit depth) Then you turn the Master volume to Max, maybe even adding gain through a plugin on the Master, so as to get a final loudness of the sine similar to the original. What do you get (hear) then? Big stairs, or the original sine? (yes I could try it myself, but I'm at work and do not have my PT with me...) I hope I'm clear enough... Finally the question is : would PT give the original signal if we applied -N db and then +N db? Even more important : is -20 + 25db equal to +5db ? If it is not, I guess it's a good reason not to boost the signal?... Or does the human ear not hear this problem at usually used boost values (say <6db). I re-hope I'm clear enough... What do you guys know about that? Thanks guys!

Well ok... I know... all the processing is done with floating points values... Thank you anyway...

What happens is the resultant output sine wave gets lower in amlitude volume, it does nto change shape. Also, in the digital domain the correct term is dbfs, which stands for decibels full scale, 0dbfs being the absolute highet value you can have. For Protools Le, -18dbfs=0dbu.

Ok WHERE! Didn't know about dbfs. Thanks. "What happens is the resultant output sine wave gets lower in amlitude volume, it does nto change shape." Yes but it is possible thanks to the use of floating point numbers. Isn't it? C.