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Vance IngallsandClaude Opus 5 87dc466f17 docs(plans): calibrate how much the clip-before-duck fix actually changes
The before/after pair was listened to and the difference was barely
detectable. That is a real result, not a bad test: sweeping the chain's
overshoot shows the damage scales with it, and the pair happened to sit at the
bottom of the range.

  chain peak 0.48x -> nothing clamped, -70 dB (16-bit rounding only)
  chain peak 1.35x ->  2.1% of samples, -25.1 dB  <- what was listened to
  chain peak 2.69x -> 19.3% of samples,  -9.1 dB
  chain peak 4.00x -> 48.8% of samples,  -3.3 dB

So a chain that stays under full scale is completely unaffected — the fix
changes nothing for it — and 55f852a72's "audible distortion" framing is
overstated for mild chains. The fix is still right: it destroys data the lane
was about to scale down anyway. But it belongs with correctness work rather
than with "renders sound wrong today", and the handoff now says so plainly so
nobody re-derives the severity from the commit message alone.

The commit itself is left alone rather than rebasing 15 commits over an
adjective; the measurement lives here instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 03:06:24 -07:00
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