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Originally Posted by TheNeil
This is probably an incredibly naive suggestion, but if it's so hard for Avid to track down the source of these blasts (which thankfully I've not experienced), wouldn't a plausible workaround be to have a preferences-configurable hard-limit on dB output, anything above which simply gets limited?
From what I gather, that's essentially what ice9 does, so it would seem like a good addition to the core application, rather than everyone combing for causes of individual instances, and living in fear of new ones being introduced.
FYI, I'm using 12.7.1 on macOS 10.12.3.
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A hard limit on the output won't solve anything, as the DA can't produce above 0dBFS anyway - the hardware simply cannot produce a dynamic range of 800 odd dB. a 300dB noise blast will be just as loud as a 700dB one at the output if heard at the same monitor volume - it will be at the full volume of the DA. As we often mix needing to hear how much range there is to full scale, a limiter will not help.
Ice9 from what I understand (which I haven't tested) works by muting the sound if the threshold is reached, so a limiter with a 1:negative infinity ratio, rather than a limiter with with a 1: positive infinity ratio.