bluedaffy
New member
Quick questions on clipping and levels.
1. At the mix stage, is it equally OK to have no clipping occurring but the peaks come very close to peaking + or - 1 db? Or even though it's not clipping is it better to have the clips a few db shy of clipping? (Also, in the mix stage does it matter if the individual tracks peak close to 0 db?)
2. When in the mastering stage and doing some compression, multiband or otherwise, should there never be clipping anywhere in the chain? Or can it clip after compressing because the limiter will stop those peaks before clipping.
3. I've been using a multiband compressor and have been able to get good results so far. It has a high and low threshold so the signal is compressed between them but if it exceeds the high threshold it is not? Am I correct on that? And if so, why would I want a high threshold? I feel like compressing the meat of the audio but not the peaks is counter-intuitive to attempting to control the dynamic range.
1. At the mix stage, is it equally OK to have no clipping occurring but the peaks come very close to peaking + or - 1 db? Or even though it's not clipping is it better to have the clips a few db shy of clipping? (Also, in the mix stage does it matter if the individual tracks peak close to 0 db?)
2. When in the mastering stage and doing some compression, multiband or otherwise, should there never be clipping anywhere in the chain? Or can it clip after compressing because the limiter will stop those peaks before clipping.
3. I've been using a multiband compressor and have been able to get good results so far. It has a high and low threshold so the signal is compressed between them but if it exceeds the high threshold it is not? Am I correct on that? And if so, why would I want a high threshold? I feel like compressing the meat of the audio but not the peaks is counter-intuitive to attempting to control the dynamic range.