Soft clipping

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"Soft Clipping" is a Trademark registered by NAD Electronics in the late 1970's. The name is descriptive of a non linear electronic limiting circuit which gradually attenuates a voltage signal once it reaches 1-2 dB from "hard clipping" a characteristic of linear feedback amplifiers as the signal level reaches output stage voltage limiting. The effect of the soft clipping is to reduce the high order harmonics and intermodulation distortion components which result from hard clipping ,and in doing so reducing the objectionable harsh sound of hard clipping.BEEdvardsen 08:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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