Clipping on music vs clipping on amp?

[The Camry]

i understand what happens when you clip an amplifier. What is clipping in a song do?

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[shammyhavik]

it won't sound good because it will be a badly ripped file. it would be like playing distortion through your speakers and i assume at high enough volume you'd easily damage drivers.

also bass boosted files can induce clipping before your usual limit. this is why i like to stick to a certain DJ, e.g. decaf, because they generally keep the levels of bass, tweeters, etc. on the same levels instead of having to worry about what is going to come on next.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

run it through spectrum analyzer on audacity. Decaf files show all clean. However, some dj artist have it clean but the gain on the recording is set very high, which could lead you to clipping too. If it feels like waay too loud compared to normal and sounds weird, then you definitely need to continually lower it down.

 

[The Camry]

so looking at that. Audacity says im clipping. spec graph says 1 db. Thats distortion yes?

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

so looking at that. Audacity says im clipping. spec graph says 1 db. Thats distortion yes?

heavily boosted 28-34hz range, If your subs arent in a box tuned to handle it, you can cause damage if your subsonic filter is not high enough. The 0.6 db peak at 32hz Just means the gain is really high on the song, so you'd need to back the volume/sub level off on the head unit if you set your gains with a 0 db test tone. The amount of clipping on that song is moderate, as long as you dont go crazy and know your system's limits, you can play it. You can also use the amplify option and levelize the spectrum so it wont be clipping anymore.

 

[The Camry]

Never heard of the amplify option. Wheres it at and what do you do to find clean deep bass music?

Also, Ive noticed alot of songs in general are like that. Some clipping through the song but still pretty rarely. Is that half a second of clipping really that harmful? Isnt it the CONSTANT square wave that hurts your subs and not just a one second one.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Never heard of the amplify option. Wheres it at and what do you do to find clean deep bass music?
Also, Ive noticed alot of songs in general are like that. Some clipping through the song but still pretty rarely. Is that half a second of clipping really that harmful? Isnt it the CONSTANT square wave that hurts your subs and not just a one second one.

main clipping on a lot of songs are in the vocal range not mixed well with subs. Simple thing is, if you turn up the volume and it doesnt get loud anymore, then you need to back it off, thats your clipping point, each song will have different limits.

amplify is in effects. It can either boost the song volume up if the recording is really quiet or attenuate and bring down all the clipping levels.

 

[The Camry]

*finds amplify option* COOOOOLL >.

Thanks

 

[The Camry]

main clipping on a lot of songs are in the vocal range not mixed well with subs. Simple thing is, if you turn up the volume and it doesnt get loud anymore, then you need to back it off, thats your clipping point, each song will have different limits.
amplify is in effects. It can either boost the song volume up if the recording is really quiet or attenuate and bring down all the clipping levels.

So even when you amplify it to 0 db and then redo your spectrum analysis. It still says + however many db.

What am i missing here?

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

So even when you amplify it to 0 db and then redo your spectrum analysis. It still says + however many db.
What am i missing here?

its inherent recording levels. Again, just dont go crazy with the volume knob and you should be safe.

 

[negolien]

Holy Sh*T my man :

 

[The Camry]

From what I've seen. Use the amplify or normalize feature and you can clean up a lot of clipped music.

 

[negolien]

From what I've seen. Use the amplify or normalize feature and you can clean up a lot of clipped music.

LOL yeah thanks bud I ended up using the Amplify setting and it did exactly that cleaned up my entire collection :

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Holy Sh*T my man :
Pirate bay, cd 320 kbps quality, download whole entire albums.

However, some music have inherent clipping built in even when straight from the source.

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

Clipping is a function of a waveform. Doesn't matter if it's music or a pure sine wave, they're all sound waves. There's no difference discounting duration, etc.