Once its clipped its clipped, unless you use 'unclipper' software, which reforms the clipped waveforms. Much pop music, if it clips at all, is going to be things like cymbal crashes and momentary short peaks, clips not audible. A recording with wide dynamic range and little or no dynamics processing, like classical or some jazz will probably clip badly and very audibly during the crescendos, as the quiet parts get included in determining the loudness. Regarding audibility of clipping, maybe no, maybe yes.

The difference between -18 and -16 is 2dB, essentially imperceptible with most music. I believe Volume Normalize does both in one pass. Not sure what you used, but from what I read here in the past, if you want to use Replay Gain (apply) you need to run Replay Gain first, as apply looks for existing tags and applies them to change the gain of the track/album as required. I buy almost all of my files off of in digital format.Īlso why do you suggest I disable clip prevention? It is my understanding that most of the time the clipping that it prevents will be inaudible +0.2dB type of peaks and regardless most playback systems, especially in my case when I DJ for example with a limiter, have protection already and thus using clip prevention just makes certain tracks not change accordingly.Īnd why do you suggest I do track RG as well? Isn't album gain superior since it takes into account album mastering and allows quiet tracks to be relatively quiet? Normalization isn't what I'm going for.Īs for ripping, I'm not ripping. Then you can just do the apply part because all the files will already have RG tags.Yea I'm going to do them in one step. Why don't you add both track and album RG tags when you rip to your archive version.

Take a look at their descriptions.īut question. Or perhaps it's the volume normalize DSP. But I think you can do both the create RG tag and apply it in one step with the replayGain (apply) DSP.

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