digital clipping leads to audible "crackling"... but if you clip only every once in a while, say on a snare, that's fine because it probably won't change the sound as much, but try clipping often on bass and it's horrible. and normalizing won't throw off any eq'ing or anything else you do, it just scans your sound file, determines what the loudest peak is, and then will boost the entire file to whatever level you specify (if the loudest it goes is -5.2 peak db, and you normalize to 0 db, it'll essentially turn up the entire file by 5.2 db). and commercial releases are much louder than things we release because... they're commercial - people with huge racks of tube/analog equipment get paid to work on the tracks until they're loud as hell without clipping.
keep at it. frequent clipping's bad, normalizing isn't, and one day we'll get loud enough. joe --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
