How To Tell If A Song Is Clipped

[BigPimpin91]

First Download and install Freeware called Audacity.

Audacity.

Next, open a song using Audacity.

Select a portion of the song where the bass is.

Hit CTRL+1 Until your window looks like this.

Notice how the bass hits bottom and stays there?

That's what is called Clipping, or Saturation.

Here is an example of an Non-Clipped song.

[bass lover]

That works. But I like to use an oscilloscope and watch the song play. I just put the songs into FL Studio and play them and watch the oscilloscope.

Here's a list of some songs that are clipped.

T-Rock - Mary Jane

T.I. - I'm A King

Lil' Wayne - 3 Peat

Lil' Boosie - Set It Off

There's billions more that i don't remember or know about.

Late Nite Tip has an ugly bassline

Gorilla Zoe - "Money Man", has one of the loudest basslines that isn't clipped

[BigPimpin91]

That works. But I like to use an oscilloscope and watch the song play. I just put the songs into FL Studio and play them and watch the oscilloscope.

Here's a list of some songs that are clipped.

T-Rock - Mary Jane

T.I. - I'm A King

Lil' Wayne - 3 Peat

Lil' Boosie - Set It Off

There's billions more that i don't remember or know about.

Late Nite Tip has an ugly bassline

Gorilla Zoe - "Money Man", has one of the loudest basslines that isn't clipped

Especially C&S.

36 and 29hz ftmfw!

[littleitaly1990]

Sticky?

[wL<3bass]

Theres a feature in audacity that searches for clipping so you don't have to do that b/c while some notes aren't clipped early in the song there may be ones toward the end I either watch the oscilloscope or hit the button that says "find clipping" if its clipped it will find it.

[Guest]

i use Audition, has a nice little real-time peak-meter and shows red whenever it clips.

[wL<3bass]

i use Audition, has a nice little real-time peak-meter and shows red whenever it clips.

Yeh that sometimes doesn't find it... most of the time it does but the clipping feature will always find it.

[BigPimpin91]

Theres a feature in audacity that searches for clipping so you don't have to do that b/c while some notes aren't clipped early in the song there may be ones toward the end I either watch the oscilloscope or hit the button that says "find clipping" if its clipped it will find it.

Wheres the clipping button at?

[wL<3bass]

[littleitaly1990]

mine doesn't have that