Okay guys, first, thanks for all the reponses, second, I guess I
should have gave a little more detail. I'm not paying this guy.
We're both doing this pro-bono as a side project. However, we do plan
on "releasing" it. If it sells, than we get paid. I'm friends with
this guy, it's not really a strictly professional relationship. He
isn't even a mastering engineer either. We probably won't even have
it mastered (again pro-bono). He's just the guy that will be laying
down bass and mixing it.

Could anybody tell me why clipped to hell is bad? I know that it is
but I have problems trying to figure out how I can explain this to
him. Are there really artifacts that happen from this? Someone
suggested I'm too far down the path, but I would say I'm not far
enough down it. I'd really like to learn what this stuff sounds like
and how to identify it. If it really ruins audio, it seems to me the
problems should be rather easy to point out. If someone can't
identify an exact problem, than it must be hypochondria, right?