Cutting Results in a Clip?

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On a nylon guitar track, I cut a few db in the upper-mid range (don't remember which, as I'm away from the studio now), and it clips. Without the cut, it doesn't clip. I'm baffled. Why would that be? I'm cutting, not boosting.
 
Aha. Sounds like a likely suspect; I'll check it out when I get back to it. Thanks much.
 
Hey Bunt (or anyone) -- I'm using digi's EQ III, and I couldn't find anything like an auto-gain-makeup setting. Tried using the one-band and seven-band versions, same thing: a very modest cut at 2khz causes a clip. Any ideas? :confused:
 
At the top there is an input gain, and an output gain. Are you sure you're not clipping to track? Is there anything else in your signal chain before that EQ that could be boosting the signal going to the EQ?

I'm just thinking out loud here... but here are a few troubleshooting questions that may give us more insight as to why you are clipping...

If it doesn't clip on the input side of the EQ, and you are attenuating a range of frequencies, I can't see why it would clip. Is the clip occurring on the track that you are EQ'ing, or is it clipping on a summing bus, or master bus? Do you have any volume automation on the track? If the signal is too hot, re-record it.. You could try reducing the tracks gain, by using the Gain plugin under Audiosuite. Or you could use the pencil tool to try and rid any clipping, if you don't have the option to re-recording.
 
Nick, it's totally strange: input and output of the eq are both set to 0, and clipping does not occur on the input but on the output, *when* that slight cut is made at 2khz. Without the cut, it doesn't clip. No other variables going on; nothing else on the track, and it's clipping right there on the track, not out to a summing bus, etc.

I guess the next thing to do would be to try this with a different eq. Maybe something funky is happening with the digi plug-in. Or maybe there really is some kind of auto-boosting going on that I can't see in the interface.
 
dabeed said:
Nick, it's totally strange: input and output of the eq are both set to 0, and clipping does not occur on the input but on the output, *when* that slight cut is made at 2khz. Without the cut, it doesn't clip. No other variables going on; nothing else on the track, and it's clipping right there on the track, not out to a summing bus, etc.

I guess the next thing to do would be to try this with a different eq. Maybe something funky is happening with the digi plug-in. Or maybe there really is some kind of auto-boosting going on that I can't see in the interface.
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Well, if it's not clipping on the input of the EQ, then I would just attenuate the EQ output gain, and compensate with the volume fader. Or like you mentioned, try switching EQ's. Good luck!
 
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