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It's very difficult to hear the difference in music with so many variables. Network quality, sound drivers, recording software, your device drivers, and your listening device, whether it be headphones or speakers. KZfaq also compresses files when they're uploaded, that's another hurdle. It's best to see the before and after for yourself after following this guide- it works!

+Zaparter while your imput seems educated i thank you for it however you denounced his method and also neglected to offer your own solution to the problem. . .

ForeverGoth There is no real solution to the problem. All audio information that was contained in these peaks is literally clipped away. Minor clipping may be fixed by Audacity's Clip Fix algorithm with satisfactory results. Just lower the overall volume by a -6dB gain and apply Clip Fix. If the added peaks clip again you can undo and try lowering overall volume even further, but I wouldn't think those clips are minor enough to be repaired if that's the case. Think of it this way: The waveform of let's say a kick carries all other frequencies of the mix, they basically oscilate around the kick's wave. If the kick's wave exceeds the brickwall, not only does the kick start sounding like a shoebox, but also are all other frequencies wiped out of the mix during every clip. There is no way of fixing such damage. You might know this, but all of these clipped tracks that are released are a result of, as some call it, the 'loudness war' or as others claim 'better studio compression'. However I find it hard to believe that actual sound engineers are so bad at handling their equipment and/or software that they master recordings to hard-clipped BS in 8/10 cases. Taking into consideration that virtually all record and CD pressings (+downloads) come from the same master, but in almost every case only the digital releases exhibit clipping and signs of high-ratio-low-threshold compression really makes one wonder what the fuck the music industry is up to (e.g. have a look at Plastic Beach by Gorillaz imgur.com/SFmL9tD). There are exceptions to the rule, but those are mostly outside of genres that in any way might be labeled Pop/Rock. So yeah, I guess if you really want to do away with clipping and you are lucky enough that your preferred music is issued on record, you might want to drop ~600$ on a turntable, preamp and A/D converter.

The method filters out the harmonics of clipped bass in the bass track. That restores the waveform of the bass track. However, the harmonic energy is retained in the midrange+treble track. When you mix the two tracks back together, the quality of the bass has been somewhat restored. That's all it does. It should be possible to fix clipping, but Nyquist programming is over my head.

Would it be pointless for me to use the process shown in this video even for tracks that show no clipping? I've gotten into the habit of doing this to all of my songs' track wavs, including my rendered instrumentals. Is this a waste of time, and worth the difference in quality?

A lot of the clipping happens at the peaks caused by the bass. The squared peaks generate noise energy at harmonics of the bass's energy's frequency. Removing the harmonics from the bass restores its waveform. Most of the energy from melodic or harmonic instruments (including the human voice) has frequencies above 70 Hz whereas most of the energy of percussion instruments has frequencies below 70 Hz. The noise energy still exists in the higher-frequency tracks and is re-introduced when the tracks are mixed back together, so the distortion is merely mixed with the cleaned-up bass, not eliminated. I do not think the process removes any distortion from the upper-frequency tracks. However, if you wanted to divide those tracks at, for example, just above the peak frequency of the vocalist (700 Hz for speech of mature males), you might gain further reduction in distortion. It depends on the nature of the sound. I don't think this is the best way to achieve de-clipping, but until I find an add-in that actually works, this will have to do.

dude.. that saved me so much time. i was about to do an entire album using the method in this video.. downloaded mp3gain and did the entire album with one click lol.. and checking in audacity im not seeing clipping now.

Liza Rome Comment is 1 yead old but I gotta say this. The people who record stuff in the studios 24 / 7, 356 days in a year... they know how to audioengineer the shit out of shit. These pros engineer stuff to absolute perfection because it's the routine thing to do. Real artists do use studio professionals, unless they are pros themselves. Nicky Minaj and similiar artists do produce flawless quality stuff, when it comes to signal processing. The content an artist produces might be meaningless mainstream porridge, but the quality is just fine. Most of the artists have nothing to do with the high tech studio recording thingies because most of the artists don't know jack about anything technical. Then there are these wannabe homecouch-fatass artists/whoever who don't have any skills whatsoever needed to produce high quality material. They are too lazy to learn or to ask help and and they just ignorantly pour their sad waste to youtube or wherever. Instead of polluting the environment, these artist wannabes should just stay silent and do their homework until they know how to produce something worthwhile. The poor audio/video/production quality treatment performed by dumb people has already produced so much carbage material that the digital world is drowning in it. The quality of the Interwebz's digital versions of the serious recordings of real artists is poor because people who spread this digital stuff (like pirate mp3 files) do something to the original track/file/quality. The original studio quality is flawless. The quality of the customer made/uploaded songs, youtube videos etc. is often utter shit... Internet people know nothing about audio/video quality 99% of the time.

Clipping is a distortion - this guy’s method doesn’t actually fix anything. To fix clipping, you have to go to source track.

Okay. Then what? Do I use the same instructions?

Honestly, I’m not that technically savvy. I’m not sure what to do next.

You can't fix peaking (otherwise known as clipping). It was the original voice actor's fault for not setting their gain low enough on their mic.

clipping and distortion are not the same

I mixed/rendered and got some clips and is why I tried this tutorial. Compression/hard limit worked ok and got the clip out without any artifacts. I just wanted to see. I will be getting a 4 I/O usb hardware (@about $200.00) and they usually have great intro software that has most features of the expensive version for mixing.

He exports it to merge the tracks (audacity auto merges them into a single set of stereo channels) then exports it again after re-amplification to get the final product. Doesn't seem to be an easy way to merge the tracks without doing it that way.

Why not export and re-amplify at the same time?

Thank you everyone for responding. I have a version of Audacity that has a merge feature, really very easy. There are "101" versions of Audacity, some features work well on some, not on others, ie: nice sounding reverb program vs another version that's terrible.

its 12 years old video. chill