Clipping, Soft Clipping, & Saturation Explained

Sound Explained: Clipping, Soft Clipping, & Saturation

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[Itsallawesome]

Please. Never stop making videos. These are extremely helpful! I know you don't have a ton of subscribers or get a ton of views but your content is great and the people that do watch your videos get a lot out of it. Thank you!

[KriAsb]

These are probably the best production tutorials that is currently on youtube.

[conrow]

After all this years. Still so important to understand the real basics!
Thank you

[sevazakharenko]

Was looking all over for someone to explain the concept in the context of signal manipulation. Thank you for this!

[abishekraju]

this is the real deal. No tutorial series or channel has ever had such a huge effect on me. Your tutorials are different from others and probably what many ppl need. But not many ppl are aware of their(ur channel and these tuts) existence. Trust me, this is what i as an amateur producer(who still has a lot to learn) would call a treasure. Keep up the gppd work m8!

[spartanA]

Really great explanation... you're absolutely right - I've also seen it hundreds of times where producers are saying "avoid clipping at all costs" as if it is some golden rule.
Understanding what's really going on in terms of the sound and how it is affected is the key to good production. Thanks a lot for all your videos, they are brilliant!

[jcgongavoe]

Thank you, after 5 years of researching, I finally've found the noise source on my piano track that bashes me to avoid any louder volume

[frangellico]

great tips about an endless topic, good be great to see how much - in your opinion - saturation can be applied on diff. parts of a mix, without compromise the whole dynamic range of a song.

[ShallieDragon]

I never thought of using clipping/waveshaping as a form of compression. I might want to try that with some sounds in the future.

[htwodaahizzza]

Yo you are the truth!!... Keep posting tutorials... You helped
Gained an understanding on something others couldn't explain...👌🔥🔥

[actionstyleusa]

Appreciate your time in these tutorials thank you and funny comments throughout the video haha.

[ajprasad]

@4:00 "Your song is going to summon a demon" lmao!

[PhilsHarmony]

Very very good tutorials, keep it on!
Thank you.

[neilorourke]

Very good video. Informative and easy to digest

[doktagc]

cool...thx for the demonstration - that´s really helpfull!

[VIEMusic]

Finaly someone who know what He doing. Gr8 job!

[jeroenfigee]

11:30 > the last phrase of the video would be cool 4 a new tutorial :-)

" because I use softclipping to get a louder sound "

Maybe sometime when you have time, you could show and teach us your technique?
:-)


| Thanx4posting the video

[MephistoDerPudel]

Good video ... but I really like the hard clipped piano. It adds a really nice distortion.

[psy-lion]

I have this problem mostly with kick and hi hats, after i export my file not in the DAW itself tho...

[XQeliographX]

I have FL studio 10. In my track the master mixer track peaks at -2 db when the track is played; no clipping. Yet the master peak meter at the top of the interface (the smaller horizontal one at the top) goes into the red and shows clipping when the track is played. I have instrument channels that are turned up above 1 db. In my renders there is no distortion. Is my track really clipping or isn't it?