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In article writes:

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 technical term is "clipping." More often it's "soft clipping" or
"limiting" where the tops are rounded slightly rather than being flat,
but if there was any place to go further up, it would.

However, I usually can't
hear anything unmusical resulting from this occuring.

That's because you haven't heard it without processing.

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.

And you don't consider that harsh or rackety? You're just the kind of
customer the overcompressors like.

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