Phil Leigh;421144 Wrote: > However, I agree that a peak of 1 doesn't necessarily imply clipping Quite so - plenty of (unclipped) classical CDs have an album peak of 1.
Phil Leigh;421144 Wrote: > but a peak of one AND a high negative replaygain together seem to add > up. Certainly the semi-random sample I've just examined do... Peak=1 plus a high replaygain value is probably a warning sign as you say, but it's not quite so simple. There are plenty of modern pop/rock albums that are clipped to buggery but have a peak level below 1. It's amusing to speculate why the peak level is below 1 in these cases. Either the mastering engineer is trying to hide from the casual observer the fact that he's perpretrated clipping (a deliberate cover-up), or he's heard that you should leave a bit of headroom to avoid distortion in some DACs (ironic that he should want to preserve fidelity after completely trashing the album to start with). I don't have any experience with this DeClip tool, but here's an experiment worth trying. Take an album that you know is not clipped but has a peak level of 1 and run it through the DeClip tool. Is the output identical to the input (ie. does DeClip pass non-clipped audio through unmolested)? If it is, then can't you just whack everything through DeClip without first determining if it has clipping? -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57872 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
