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I don't want to ruin SOAD for you, but take for instance and rip Bad Statue from the Mezmerize album, look around 53 seconds, on mine it's 00:00:52.916 that's A

by dusted 3y ago

I don't want to ruin SOAD for you, but take for instance and rip Bad Statue from the Mezmerize album, look around 53 seconds, on mine it's 00:00:52.916 that's A LOT of samples just going flat all topped out, that's a clip, and the whole song is filled with them, it has these little clips all over which gives an overall sensation that someone had their gain juuust that little tad too high at some point, and it's just pretty hard to unhear.. A more jarring example (SOAD is kinda noisy anyway and it's easy to ignore), take "4th of july" by Amy MacDonald, pretty clean sounding song, and yet, her voice is just that tad over the top and it's popping, lots of times just 4-5 samples, but constantly, and the audible clipping is at the same place where they are on the waveform.. Luckily I'm not the only one who's noticed this, but I'm kind of surprised that people don't find it more of a problem.. https://www.reddit.com/r/systemofadown/comments/xdspsl/i_tried_to_fix_the_heavy_clipping_and_distortion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/systemofadown/comments/xdspsl/i_tri... Here's an edited version without the clipping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-5XUu6hWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-5XUu6hWA see how his voice is less harsh (I'd say it's maybe overdone here, voice can be harsh just fine without the clipping sounds) I actually thought my download was broken, but it's the same on the physical cd version.

brudgers 3y ago
Could it be clipping is an artist's artistic choice? I mean music is bigger than the set of rules rulemakers have made.
- dusted 3y ago
  There's definitely lots of that too, especially guitars and synth, but it's typically aesthetic and both sounds (and looks) like it belongs in the track
- qbrass 3y ago
  Static-X might have done something like that intentionally, but it's generally what was done on CDs during the loudness war. It's why people were buying albums on vinyl instead of CDs, back before it became trendy.
  - brudgers 3y ago
    My understanding is the loudness war reduced dynamic range, but that it didn’t do so via clipping of high amplitude frequencies in the music, but rather by increasing gain of low amplitude frequencies with techniques like parallel compression. But I could be wrong.

by dusted 3y ago

brudgers 3y ago

Could it be clipping is an artist's artistic choice? I mean music is bigger than the set of rules rulemakers have made.

dusted 3y ago
There's definitely lots of that too, especially guitars and synth, but it's typically aesthetic and both sounds (and looks) like it belongs in the track
qbrass 3y ago
Static-X might have done something like that intentionally, but it's generally what was done on CDs during the loudness war. It's why people were buying albums on vinyl instead of CDs, back before it became trendy.
- brudgers 3y ago
  My understanding is the loudness war reduced dynamic range, but that it didn’t do so via clipping of high amplitude frequencies in the music, but rather by increasing gain of low amplitude frequencies with techniques like parallel compression. But I could be wrong.