Talk:Clipping (audio)

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[edit] More general

Clipping happens with signals that are not audio, too, but I don't see an article for it. Move to clipping (signal) or something instead? — Omegatron 18:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Good point, sounds ok to me. Lgreen 05:41, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Clipping (signal processing) sounds better to me. --Kjoonlee 03:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree, it mirrors the naming of sampling (signal processing) at least.
There seem to be several clipping articles: Clipping (audio), Clipping (photography), Soft clipping, and Clipper (electronics). My first thought was to merge many of them into one, but that may end up to be too long of an article. An alternative is to put the generic+summary information in one top-level article (eg. what clipping is, what general kinds of things might cause it), and have the more specific things in separate articles (eg. this article could include just audio-specific specific clipping causes/effects/concerns). I took a shot at the second alternative, and created Clipping (signal processing) as a top-level summary article. If that option is kept, this article could remove some of the general clipping information (the "Digital clipping" section was moved over completely... many other parts of that page were borrowed from this one, but still much of this page is audio-specific, and the general one will become less audio-specific over time). Or, if someone wants to take a shot at merging them all together to see how that looks, that would work too. --Interiot 05:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Today soft clipping was a redirect to clipping (signal processing) which doesn't really explain what soft clipping is. I changed soft clipping to a redirect to the gain compression article, which explains gain compression and then says "Gain compression is, rather, the same concept as "soft clipping"." Does that make sense? --76.209.28.72 15:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
The intro to clipping (signal processing) says "Clipping may be described as hard, in cases where the signal is strictly limited at the threshold, producing a flat cutoff; or it may be described as soft, in cases where the clipped signal continues to follow the original at a reduced gain." --Dawdler 23:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible vandalism

check out that repair section, I'm pretty sure all those "$FIX_ME"s are ad-libbed and I don't know how to revert a page... Filter1987 03:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pops?

i have never heard issues with "pops" outside of speaker issues in regards to clipping. there is definately a tonal and temporal distortion issue as new harmonics are added and notes cannot decay in a timely fashion.

[edit] "Infinite Peak Clipping"?

I recently came across the jargon "Infinite Peak Clipping", which I think means (in the digital audio case) replacing all positive sample values with +1 and all negative values with -1. (Not sure how they handle zero.) Would somebody who understands this term please add it to this article?

MusicScience 17:22, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] More power, than the unclipped? :o

"Because the clipped waveform has more area underneath it than the smaller unclipped waveform" -- How is this possible? Looking at the clipped PCM signal it's obvious that the unclipped signal has a greater area underneath it, because substracting the clipped from the orignal gives a residual area (that tiny triangle like peak). Anyone care to explain this to me? Thanks. PAStheLoD (talk) 11:28, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I think you are right. I had the same question while reading the article. RodneyMyers —Preceding comment was added at 03:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)