geoff wrote:
On 8/03/2014 8:36 p.m., wrote:
I've always been under the impression that avoiding clipping is a
basic tenet of digital audio. Looking at this mastering tutorial, if
I understand what this guy is saying, he deliberately introduces a
limited amount of clipping - 2:30 "I wanted to get a little bit of
clipping on the A to D".
http://youtu.be/2V9d6zQzcrg
That you have asked here indicates that yo do have some suspicion
about this guys advice.
Clipping = poor man's aural exciter. And even those are sus in the
first place ....!
All kinds of deriding comments could be made, anyway the guys job was to
demonstrate how to use a whacking lot of waves plug-ins, and that he did,
and while it resulted in all kinds of abominable sonic aberrations - such as
a totally detached treble - it also is a demonstration of how to address
invidudual sonic problems should they occur. So yes, it is worth seeing and
listening to on reasonably good loudspeakers. You do not have to agree in
the production method and aims to respect the guys craftmanship.
geoff
Kind regards
Peter Larsen