On 12/5/06, Stoddard, Kamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The difference is with the waveform. Compression/distortion is not (...really) the same as clipping. And generally speaking, they're recognized as being the result of a lack of analogue or digital overhead respectively. You can call it what you want, and in extreme cases of compression, you can get that square wave form (clips), but it'll never sound the same and that's the real reason for the distinction.
exactly, ive never heard any analogue signal "clip" in anything like the way of just overdriving the signal into your computer will. by the time your analogue signal got that high, it would probably just sound like white noise anyway. tmo
