The equipment can’t handle the load put on it so you hear the electronics reacting and trying to keep the sound going. So clipping in Analog, very basically, happens when you literally “over- drive” a particular piece of equipment.
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I use ProTools and it has a few options for metering, for example, I use “digital VU” for my master fader because it behave similar to an analog VU meter but with its max at 0db full scale but I use “peak metering” for my individual tracks since it gives me a more accurate representation of what my tracks are doing.Īll that being said, it’s not that he can’t turn it down, it’s so that he can have a better chance of not receiving mixes destroyed by digital clipping. Your meters in FL Studio are probably measuring using a different scale. Same reason why we love analog audio so much is because you can and it usually results in some favorable outcomes when done tastefully. The full-scale system is what is used for digital audio since you mathematically can’t go above a certain limit in the digital world. The reason why a mastering engineer needs a mix at -6db is that he’s probably meaning at -6db full-scale. That’s why high quality audio files are usually 96k sample rate and 24bit bit-depth as opposed to the usual mp3 exported at 44.1k sample rate and 16bit depth and usually compressed even more for streaming. Digital headroom always ends at 0db full scale.Īudio is digitally captured in samples (44.1k, 88.2k, 96k, etc) in certain bit-depths (16,24,32) the individual sample is a snapshot of audio in a particular moment of time and the bit-depth is was dictates the amount of detail capture in that snapshot. The only thing having higher bit-depth does is give you more dynamic range across the digital spectrum - not more headroom. Having a higher bit-depth does not equate to higher headroom. I see a lot of comments about bit-depth that are very misleading. Helps us keep the sub clean by reporting posts and comments that are in fault. Check out the rest of them before posting and learn more behind their reason to be:
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Have questions about mixing? Would like feedback on your track? You've come to the right place.įor questions about recording, gear troubleshooting and nearly everything else that doesn't involve mixing, try: /r/audioengineering (that's the core professional audio community on reddit) A marketplace to search for and offer mixing and mastering services (separately).