Ryan wrote:
I know what clipping sounds like during recording. It is pretty
obvious. I don't know what the technical term is, but I know when you
look at an audio file of almost any new hard rock CD in your DAW, the
waves looked clipped. The graphic looks to big for the space it's in,
and the tops and bottoms of the waves are no longer round, but flat.
I guess these are considered square waves. However, I usually can't
hear anything unmusical resulting from this occuring. It does not
sound anything liked trying to digitaly record a signal that's too
strong for your IO card. The only thing I notice about these
recordings is that there really aren't any quiet parts. Everything is
always super loud, even the parts which are supposed to be the quiet
building type parts that build up to a climax. But I don't hear
anything harsh or rackety about them.

What you are describing is probably not the individual waveforms, but the
overall *envelope* of the music. This is the hypercompression I was
referring to earlier in teh thread..

geoff