Re: How to keep sox_ng from clipping on an F32 .wav file from a Zoom recorder

On 05/07/2026 22:19, Doug Lee wrote:
> I recorded part of a Virginia/DC air show last night with a Zoom H1
> Essential recorder, which uses 32-bit float samples. Try as I might, I
> can't keep sox_ng from clipping while trying to process these files. Is
> this possible currently?
> 
(sorry Doug, I sent the reply directly to you and not to the list)

If your sox is built with libsndfile support, then you can do:

sox -tsndfile INPUT OUTPUT

sndfile reader normalizes float formats to [-1,1] before the samples hit 
sox's integer pipeline.