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Default Clipping on professionally produced CD's

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:42:42 +1100, Trevor wrote:

That's the problem, they simply don't realise (or admit) it **IS** the
same as clipping given a perfect brick wall limiter.


Feeding a sine wave into a "brick wall limiter" over the limiter's
threshold produces a sine wave attenuated so the peaks just reach the
threshold level.

If you think it produces a waveform with clipped peaks, you are simply
wrong. Even with infinitely fast attack (which is possible in digital
processing) any device or plugin calling itself a limiter does not also
have infinitely fast release.

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