Ryan wrote:

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?

Because it sounds bad.

If he can't tell it sounds bad on his monitors, you got a big problem.

You could give him that nifty paper from Bob Orban, explaining why
clipped signals cause major problems in broadcast chains. But the
basic reason is that clipping sounds bad.
--scott
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