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What is “clipping” distortion? What causes it, and how to avoid it when recording audio?
What is "clipping" distortion? What causes it, and how to avoid it when recording audio?
p.s. please add tags "distortion" and "clipping".
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How to avoid clipping when explicitly adding audio tracks?
When two or more audio tracks are simply "added" together, they may peak at the same time, causing the resulting "sum" track to be clipped. I am looking for an algorithm or technique to bring the ...
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How to handle extreme dynamic range in a vocalist?
Just finished a tracking session with a singer who has a huge dynamic range. This musician is otherwise very professional, and is a joy to have in the studio, and I'm not in any way criticizing her. ...
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How do I fix clipping distortion in my audio recording?
I've recorded a living room concert of two singers with two guitars with a Zoom H2. The recording is fine 90% of the time, but there is some clipping distortion. I think this is caused because I had ...
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specifics of clipping distortion perception
Why clipped sound perceived like someone is pouring sand on drum's membrane? It feels like it happens on specific frequencies and not totally random. Which maybe means it can be filtered?
Can we ...
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What causes the limitation on excessive analog signals vs. digital signals?
In the digital world, "clipping" would occur when a signal passes above 0db.
But if you are dealing with analog equipment, is there a certain "ceiling" that tends to "brickwall" the signal down as ...
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How to remove noise caused by very loud sounds in a recording? [duplicate]
I've recently recorded a choir. The choir was singing very loud and the recording sounds badly where high or loud notes are heard, perhaps because the microphone didn't support such loudness or ...
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how to remove sound clipping in existing record [duplicate]
I have an old record that has some clipping effect that happened during recording. This is a song, so i can't just cut out all frequencies probably ... is there any smarter way around to get rid of ...
