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Seriously I'm still confused at this stuff. I looked at the ol' oscilloscope in WMP and was shocked at how much clipping and distorting their is in half my music. How do i know my limit for turning it up? For lots of my songs, the bass isn't clipped, but every single kick is. Then there are songs that have distorted kicks or distorted basslines.

I think it was always wonderbread telling me that it's okay to play clipped stuff as long as it isn't Swang my Door level clipping.

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i was wondering the same thing , let say you buy a dd-1 set everything up nice and neat no distortion and play a distorted song , then what ? ... just asking , cuz i really don't knowshrug.gif

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Yea I realized this recently when dling Audacity and messing with it a bit. Alot of my favorite songs that are best for "bumping" are clipped. Makes me sad to see how much of the stuff we listen to is clipped to hell.

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By what i have read here its not as bad to have a clipped song than a clipped signal so im guessing that its fine unless it isnt swing my door level clipped

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Can clipping be in songs bought through iTunes?

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Can clipping be in songs bought through iTunes?

Definitely unless it's ALAC (Apple Lossless) but I don't think iTunes does that, the highest bit rate I've seen when bought through iTunes was 256kbps but I could be wrong.

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Can clipping be in songs bought through iTunes?

Definitely unless it's ALAC (Apple Lossless) but I don't think iTunes does that, the highest bit rate I've seen when bought through iTunes was 256kbps but I could be wrong.

I didn't know that. Learn something new everyday

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every song is gonna have SOME clipping in it. You set everything up with a DD-1 or Oscope to have no distortion so that the unclipped signals dont clip anyways from bad settings.

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