https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/ Mixing Services and Tutorials Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/#comment-3069 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:51:17 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1606#comment-3069 […] As I recently mentioned in my overview on saturation vs distortion, distortion comes from the concept of affecting a waveforms shape. By introducing more volume, more gain to a sound, you push the peaks of a waveform beyond the point of clipping: […]

]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/#comment-933 Mon, 06 May 2024 17:38:25 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1606#comment-933 […] In this clip of a recorded vocal, we have quieter delivered words and syllables which bottom out around -20dB (20 decibels below the point of clipping). […]

]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/#comment-761 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:52:21 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1606#comment-761 […] Mastering engineers use limiters or maximizers at the end of the signal chain to turn up the volume as much as possible while avoiding audio clipping. […]

]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/#comment-635 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:02:47 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1606#comment-635 […] every song technically has a ceiling for how loud it can be. The ceiling that is audio clipping, or turning up a waveform to the point that it begins distorting, is non-negotiable. Here’s […]

]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/what-is-clipping/#comment-427 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:10:03 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1606#comment-427 […] The headroom is the difference between the level the peaks of the mix reach in your finished mix and the point of clipping (see what is clipping). […]

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