Does anyone know a free analyzer software that shows the times a soundfile is clipping, like in one of the loudness war video that tells that black eyed peas album/song was clipping like 200.000 times or something?
Clipping analyzer?
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http://www.rndigital.org/Download_Inspector.htm
edit: I tried it with Death Magnetic, it didn't notice even one event of clipping
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It won't,.. the clipping has been applied pre-cd.
there are only so many bits that can be used by the CD when it's being printed, but also, there can only be so many outputted by the CD as well.
So you'll never "clip" a track that's been released AFAIK.
there are only so many bits that can be used by the CD when it's being printed, but also, there can only be so many outputted by the CD as well.
So you'll never "clip" a track that's been released AFAIK.
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abyssofdreams
knows what you think.
devouredremains
Matt Van Daele
poidaobi
Held in Hollows
OMG
...I never noticed it
...and it works! 
edit: 27458 clips on the left channel and 30631 clips on the right channel on "All Nightmare Long", totalling at 58089 clips. And thats just one song!
Ugghh, right on with that Fragle, Virus makes me die a little inside every time I hear it from all the distortion
the thing that's amazing me is that despite of the sheer volume that record puts out, there's still some punch to the drums, i.e. kick and snare.
go listen to the latest kataklysm record, prevail....i haven't checked in my DAW yet, but i swear to god, that record is about as sonically flat as it gets. zero punch, zero dynamics.
but then again....no one cares. two days ago i had a coversation with a friend of mine about the latest metallica....when i said to him that imho it sounds "quite" bad, he strongly disagreed, compared it to st. anger, and basically told me that they're back in the game, speaking both musically and production-wise......go figure.
go listen to the latest kataklysm record, prevail....i haven't checked in my DAW yet, but i swear to god, that record is about as sonically flat as it gets. zero punch, zero dynamics.
but then again....no one cares. two days ago i had a coversation with a friend of mine about the latest metallica....when i said to him that imho it sounds "quite" bad, he strongly disagreed, compared it to st. anger, and basically told me that they're back in the game, speaking both musically and production-wise......go figure.
_RiseInside_
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You need an oversample peak meter like this one included in Rme´s Digicheck http://www.rme-audio.de/images/techinfo/level.gif Notice the 3 db scale over 0 Dbfs. It tells you exactly how much over 0 dbfs the level goes.
Or this one for SawStudio http://www.sonoris.nl/img/smtr10.jpg
These two are free though they´re not exactly what you need. Whenever there´s an intersample peak it lets you know.
This one is Bitter http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=33 and this is Ssl´s X-Ism http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/X-ISM/index.asp
Or this one for SawStudio http://www.sonoris.nl/img/smtr10.jpg
These two are free though they´re not exactly what you need. Whenever there´s an intersample peak it lets you know.
This one is Bitter http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=33 and this is Ssl´s X-Ism http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/X-ISM/index.asp
oh man, just re-listened to virus...
let me just say one thing:
ignorance is bliss
damn, that thing is clipping from here to hell and back. i wonder why i never noticed it when i first got it?? guess my ears are getting more and more fine-tuned...with all pro's and con's
let me just say one thing:
ignorance is bliss
damn, that thing is clipping from here to hell and back. i wonder why i never noticed it when i first got it?? guess my ears are getting more and more fine-tuned...with all pro's and con's
Pedro Teixeira
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That's what I was thinking... How can it detect for example that Death Magnetic is clipping? It is clipping yes, but it's clipping internally, I'm sure that the master isn't clipping, or if you put the audio file in any audio analyzer it won't clip ever... So how can it detect? Although we can hear it, the software cannot, it can only analyze the numbers..
