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RE: Me too

I agree. The pattern of clipping is important.

I was given some clipped recordings to restore and I started doing some experiments by taking clean digital recordings (24/96) and deliberately clipping them and then doing listening tests. In most cases clipping one cycle of the waveform will be inaudible, while the same clipping applied to multiple cycles will be audible. If one note is clipped it may be hard to notice the harshness and it may appear as just a bit more dynamics by the musicians. However, if the damage repeats for several notes then it can be perceived as a defect, either with the recording or the musicianship. In some cases repeated distortion won't be perceived as a deficiency in the sound quality or musicianship, but the listener will get a headache from listening. (I didn't try to do any scientific tests to "prove" these conclusions, because they appeared to be completely obvious.)



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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