Clipping

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 12:50 pm

Just wondering why the sound sounds distorted,like analogue,when level goes into red on pulsar mixers.I thought anything above odBfs is unacceptable in digital.Do the pulsar mixers have a certain amount of headroom above the visual level.
Ouput is to analogue outs btw!
Thx!

ernest@303.nu · Post by **ernest@303.nu** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:41 pm

probably some kind of soft clipping algorythm... I noticed similar behavior in the Steinberg Reason and Ableton Live mixer, and can probably be heart in many other 'soft' mixers

Post by **hubird** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:25 pm

I'm not sure but you're probably right with the headroom: it keeps room for summing of many mixer chanels to the master mixer channel at 0 db.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:30 pm

but if it goes to the red it's clipping anyway, regardless of your headroom. I mean, when your in the red on the master, you've used up your headroom haven't you?
And there is a sofclip unit for SFP, but I don't think it's built standard into the mixers. Are you sure you're not hearing digital clipping/distortion?

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Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 9:08 pm

No,digital clipping is different.I haven't tested it on Digital out though,but I know that it works for analogue out.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:04 am

Manual says that red is 0.01db and is not a clip,it's just a high signal which shouldn't affect the signal.I think headroom has been taken care of.