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Default What is the best clipped peak restoration tool?

Any lossy encoding of lightly clipped material (eg MP3) will improve things slightly, if
the clipping artifacts are judged less important than the rest. Of course that also
introduces other problems, and can lead to much worse clipping on playback. But the latter
can at least be countered with MP3Gain or any manual pre-DAC digital gain control (eg drop
the gain in WinAmp's EQ), or by scaling back the clipped waveform (eg -6dB) before
encoding (better). I would never suggest that MP3 encoding should be able to rival a
dedicated clip removal tool, but it's better than one might expect (when the gain is
reduced before encoding to avoid playback clipping), and Cool Edit's dedicated tool is
worse than one might expect.
Tony