Is Your Master Fader Really The Problem??

We're often told that there are right ways and wrong ways to do thing when working in a DAW, and I certainly wouldn't disagree with this. There are however some things that people talk about that have kind of Chinese whispered their way through the years, and got to the point where people just believe it regardless of how true it is.

I think this is one of those occasions. How does clipping actually take place in your DAW? If your channels are clipping can you simply bring down your master fader and avoid the squared off peaks? Or do you need to deal with it at the channel level? Let's find out...

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[MFWhite]

Great practical content. Thank you Sam

[chemdrum]

This is a great video! But I wonder, wouldn't anything we create in Logic be eventually bounced into the real world anyway? I'm guessing that's why people would say that we shouldn't clip our master fader lol. However, this is great insight!

[danielpoole]

This video came at just the right time! My master on our newest single peaking at +5db so I just added the logic gain plug-in to reduce it -5db and it sounded fine. Google told me otherwise but you’ve assured me 😂

[val_de_mez]

'The Big Bang would clip that'

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Indeed sir, it would.

[errmable]

Sorry but why would you not want your viewers to see the video that I linked to?