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Clipping occurs when the signal exceeds the maximum dynamic range of an audio channel. If you're recording a sine wave, clipping looks like somebody cut the top and bottom of the sound wave: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(audio)) Analogue equipment will often add other artifacts along with clipping and rarely will the peaks be cut cleanly as with ...

I think it is possible, but depends in how clipped the signal is. Let me explain: think about a softly clipped signal. Clipping is present only in the greatest peaks, and therefore appears for a short time lapse. This kind of method could detect the clipped intervals and ''soften'' them, based in the previous behaviour of the signal. An statistical ...

"Clipping" or "hard clipping" distortion generally refers to trying to record at a volume level that is higher than the maximum value your hardware will check for. Since it can't store this value, it simply records the highest value available. If you look at the waveform, the peaks will look flattened off, as if someone clipped them off with a set of ...

You're right in that when your digital signal "clips" at 0dB, it's an absolute maximum limit. 16-bit audio has 2^16 possible volume levels, and once you get to 2^16, there's no higher number to express your sound, so it maxes out, or clips. With analog signals, your "clipping" limit is less well defined. The term distortion in an amplifier just refers to ...

I believe Zettt has nailed an answer (nice one Zettt). I want to extend this to a bigger picture. There may be an algorithm but I don't know of it specifically as an equation. This is all about mixing sound tracks like you are a great chef cooking up an unbelievable dish. Start with the finest ingredients, in this case sounds you have already recorded that ...

Nope, the sound information is missing and there is no way to recover it. (At least not that I'm aware of.) Even if there was, it would have to basically be completely guessing at what should be there. (Edit: there is software that will make the guess, and that's what the answer with the waveforms is illustrating. It is worth noting that it is a guess ...

What Kim Burgaard said is very true. The vocalist has a lot of control over how their voice is recorded. As I'm a much inferior vocalist to those I record, it can be difficult teaching them this technique, as you just want to get a good take. So what I end up doing is have the vocalist scream. Well, I ask them to warm up and hit the loudest levels they can. ...

A digital signal always has a maximum level. If summing two tracks to one signal drives the level above this point, it will clip. Most DAW tools I know of don't have any kind of fix for this. They will happily let you drive a signal to clipping, and leave the decisions of how to deal with this to you. There are a few standard techniques for getting around ...

With analog equipment, if the signal level rises above the maximum input level of the equipment, it will begin to distort. The corresponding output level may or may not continue to increase, depending on the equipment. At some point, you will begin to damage the equipment. Equipment that has Line-Level inputs will typically not accept levels much beyond ...

Any audio signal path, digital or analog, will have a maximum amplitude. If you feed it a signal, or amplify it more, you will get "clipping distortion". You avoid it by doing something that you should always do at all times: You should make sure that at each part of your signal path the path should be as loud as possible without distortion, but no louder. ...

Your mic is ok. What you hear is called Audio Clipping. Clipping limits a signal once it exceeds a certain threshold of signal values representation. You can also find some explanation here. Unfortunately, when clipping introduced - the original signal is not reconstructable.

The question about the nature of clipping phenomena was discussed many times here on this site (for example here) and on dozens of other places which are easily googled. So as it was already discussed, clipping - is just few points where signal amplitude exceed the available range of finite amplitude levels. This causing the wave signal to become less ...

It is impossible to repair clipped signal, since when clipping occurs, part of the original signal is eliminated and cannot be restored. The phenomena is described in the below image: However there are few commercial clicks\pops removal apps available which could improve the signal. The following list of software appear in Wikipedia: Sony Sound Forge ...

Singing with an microphone, both live and recorded, can be improved with a little technique. Compression cannot compensate for clipping and, as you point out, some singers have an incredible dynamic range. If you look closely at vocalists who regularly perform with microphones, you will notice they either move the microphone or the head to increase the ...