Commit 844f3dbd by PLN (Algolia)

feat(take-master): the first master came out MONO at 192 kHz — both were real

`tidal-ears master mix` has the right recipe and this reuses it verbatim. What
it does not know is how Ardour lays out a take, and that produced two defects
that only appear on this material — both of which I only caught by inspecting
the output file rather than trusting "Done:".

  1. MONO. Ardour writes each orbit as TWO mono files, `Take95_Tidal 04-1%L.wav`
     and `%R.wav`. Globbing all 24 into amix sums them into ONE channel. The
     stereo image is gone — and ParVagues pans deliberately (`# pan 0.8` on the
     hats, `0.2` on take_5's sleepwalker), so that is not a technicality, it
     discards a compositional layer silently. Each pair is now `join`ed into
     stereo first and the mix is 12 stereo streams.

  2. 192 kHz. loudnorm resamples internally to 192 kHz to measure true peak, and
     with no explicit output rate ffmpeg keeps it. A 48 kHz session produced a
     624 MB 192 kHz file carrying no extra information. `-ar` is now pinned to
     the source rate. NB this one affects every master the sister tool has made.

UNIFORM TRIM, not per-stem normalisation. gain_for_stem normalises each stem
toward a target peak, which is right for stems of unknown provenance and wrong
for these: PLN balanced these twelve orbits by hand, on faders, while playing.
Normalising individually rewrites that balance — measured at 4.0 dB of shift on
Take95, mostly making the hats hotter. One trim for every stem preserves the mix
he played; loudnorm sets the absolute level. Same conclusion take-lens reached.

AND THE MEASUREMENT ITSELF HAD A TRAP. The first version used `volumedetect`,
which reports max_volume against a fixed-point full scale and SATURATES at 0.0
dB. Every one of these float stems read as exactly +0.0, so the derived trim was
-6 dB when the truth needed -19.3. Twelve identical +0.0 readings is not data,
it is a clipped instrument — `astats Peak_level` reports the real values and
they match the sister tool's analyze pass exactly (d4 +13.3, d3 -3.3).

Refuses to render if an orbit has only one side, rather than panning it hard.
Verifies channels and rate of its own output and exits non-zero if either is
wrong — the check that would have caught both original defects.
parent 2bcb605f
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