Sweep sine get more harmonics when increasing the bitrate about liblc3 HOT 3 CLOSED

Thank for these observations.

Note that the bandwidth is limited to 20 KHz.
I have generated a mono linear sweep 20 Hz to 20 KHz.
And done the encoding/decoding loop :

./bin/elc3 /tmp/sweep.wav -b 64000 | ./bin/dlc3 > /tmp/sweep_64k.wav
./bin/elc3 /tmp/sweep.wav -b 128000 | ./bin/dlc3 > /tmp/sweep_128k.wav
./bin/elc3 /tmp/sweep.wav -b 256000 | ./bin/dlc3 > /tmp/sweep_256k.wav

The first track is the linear spectrogram of source sweep, next it's 64k, 128k and 256k ones.

It seems you're completely right. I will look in following days.
Thanks.

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@asoulier
I check with your fixed patch, the issue is fixed;
Thanks for your help.

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@WenzhengQ, can you double check with the fix 67f2231.
That looks ok on my side.

For the background: there is 2 quantization steps. The second step, slightly adjust the quantizer (global gain).
This gain should be limited to avoid saturation of the spectral coefficients, fixed to 16 bits by the bitstream.
This was not properly done, on the adjustment step, and select sometimes a quantizer one step too high.
And will occurs more often, when the compression ratio decrease (or bitrate increase).

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