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fix(audio): eq headroom so a boost no longer clips, and 16-bit dither - #906
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…mple Rounding a sample that volume, ReplayGain or the EQ moved off a 16-bit step leaves an error that follows the signal, heard as distortion on quiet passages and fade-outs. TPDF dither of one step peak turns it into a steady hiss near -96 dBFS. A sample that already is a 16-bit value is left alone, so an unaltered 16-bit stream stays bit-perfect; all 65 536 values are tested.
A boost pushed a loud master past full scale and the decoder's final clamp turned it into hard clipping. The chain now starts with a preamp equal to the peak of its own response, measured on the cascade since adjacent bands overlap and their boosts add up, plus 1 dB for the transients a filter can overshoot by (0.9 dB measured at worst). A flat or cut-only setting keeps a preamp of exactly 1.0. Also drops the brand names from the module's comments.
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Review comments at @src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/eq.rs:
- Around line 292-296: Dans la boucle de traitement de `EqProcessor`, évitez
d’appliquer immédiatement la nouvelle valeur de `self.preamp` après `recompute`.
Conservez un préampli courant et un préampli cible dans `EqProcessor`, puis
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- Around line 74-105: Mesurez le coût de `cascade_peak`
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continues de bande, dans le thread décodeur avec une file audio presque vide.
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biquads, sans le déplacer vers le callback audio temps réel.
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🟡 Minor · Calculer la marge transitoire avec la réponse impulsionnelle. · eq.rs:107-131
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCalculer la marge transitoire avec la réponse impulsionnelle.
headroom_preamputilise uniquement le pic de la réponse fréquentielle. Cette borne ne protège pas une entrée pleine échelle phase-alignée. Avec+12 dBsur la bande à 15000 Hz, une entrée finie composée de±1produit1,1073après le préampli actuel. Le clamp final provoque alors du clipping.Calculez le préampli avec une borne conservative de la somme absolue de la réponse impulsionnelle de la cascade. Ajoutez aussi un test avec une entrée phase-alignée.
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A slider moved during playback changed the preamp between two samples, heard as a click. More attenuation still applies at once, since the new boost acts from the next sample, and is given back over one buffer. Also notes the measured cost of the response sweep (about 60 us in a release build) and adds dither tests for determinism and a state that never reaches zero.
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff comment asking for the sum of the impulse response (L1 norm) as the preamp bound: not applied, after measuring what it would cost.
The L1 bound would make every boosting setting 2 to 3.5 dB quieter still, permanently, to cover one input: the sign pattern of the cascade's own impulse response, reversed, at full scale. Music does not contain that pattern, and the decoder's final clamp remains the backstop if a master ever approaches it. The 1 dB margin covers the sharpest realistic transient we measured, a full-scale [1, -1, -1, 1, ...] pattern under +12 dB at 15 kHz, which a test keeps under 1.0. |
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Tip For best results, initiate chat on the files or code changes. @InstaZDLL Merci pour les mesures et la précision sur le compromis. Je retire ma demande d’imposer la norme L1 : son coût en atténuation ne se justifie pas pour l’objectif retenu. Le pic fréquentiel avec 1 dB de marge reste une protection pratique, pas une garantie contre tout dépassement. Le test couvre le transitoire indiqué ; le clamp final borne les autres dépassements éventuels, mais ne supprime pas leur distorsion. ✏️ Learnings added
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Two defects in the audio chain: the EQ clipped on any boost, and 16-bit exclusive output was rounded without dither.
The EQ clipped on a boost
A boost pushed a loud master past full scale, and the decoder's final
clamp_to_unityturned it into hard clipping: +12 dB of bass on a modern master was heard as distortion.The chain now starts with an automatic preamp:
f64, once per change of setting or sample rate. It is measured rather than taken from the largest slider, because adjacent bands (Q 0.707) overlap and their boosts add up: Bass booster (+6 / +5 / +3) peaks near +8 dB.[1, -1, -1, 1, …]input, the worst case is +12 dB at 15 kHz, at 0.9 dB over. The strict bound (the sum of the impulse response) would cost every boosting setting 2–4 dB more for patterns music does not contain.The trade-off: a boosting setting now plays quieter (Bass booster by about 9 dB), at the level where it no longer distorts. The module's comments also lose their brand references.
16-bit exclusive output was rounded without dither
When volume, ReplayGain, the EQ or a fade moved a sample off a 16-bit step, the WASAPI and ALSA exclusive packers rounded it, leaving an error that follows the signal (distortion on quiet passages and fade-outs).
pcm_scale::Dither16adds TPDF dither of one step peak, but only where the sample is not already a 16-bit value, so an unaltered 16-bit stream stays bit-perfect. 24- and 32-bit output is not dithered. Shared-mode output is converted by cpal and the system mixer, not by us. DoP is untouched.Checks
eq.rs: flat and cut-only settings get unity; a lone +6 dB boost gets -7 dB (the boost plus the margin); overlapping boosts get more than the largest slider; a full-scale 60 Hz sine under +12 dB settles under unity; the worst transient pattern under +12 dB at 15 kHz stays at or under 1.0.pcm_scale.rs: all 65 536 16-bit values pass the dither unchanged; the dither stays bounded and unbiased over 200 000 draws.alsa_exclusive.rs(Linux-only).cargo fmt --checkpasses, andcargo clippy -p waveflow --all-targets -D warningsis clean on Windows.docs/features/playback.md: a new Equalizer section, and integer output and dither.Needs a listening test before merging: a boosting EQ preset, and a fade-out in 16-bit exclusive mode.
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