Thread: PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ENGINEERS/PRODUCERS THREAD
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tuzi
05-07-2006, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by solidstate
It's not clipping. It probably was running (relatively) hot on the tape and has a good deal of tape saturation, but any engineer who lets anything pass with clipping would be immediately fired.
At the mix stage yes, but there have been some shocking examples of clipping showing up at the mastering stage in recent years. I can only again suggest reading Rip Rowan's write up on the subject with respect to Rush:

http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C
Old 05-07-2006, 08:47 PM   #59
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Re: PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ENGINEERS/PRODUCERS THREAD
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Originally Posted by solidstate
It's not clipping. It probably was running (relatively) hot on the tape and has a good deal of tape saturation, but any engineer who lets anything pass with clipping would be immediately fired.
At the mix stage yes, but there have been some shocking examples of clipping showing up at the mastering stage in recent years. I can only again suggest reading Rip Rowan's write up on the subject with respect to Rush:

http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C
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