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Remove Clipping

  • 11-06-2010 7:20am
    #1
    ClutchIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I'm working with ableton. I was just listening back to a track I did a couple of weeks ago and the god damn second guitar track has a LOT of clipping on it! I remember this was on it but my friend thought it was due to his speaker and not the clipping. The level meters were not showing any clipping.

    Anyway, I presume it's not possible to remove this clipping is it? I will have to record the track again right? Cheers for any help


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  • #2
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    There are plugins that 'fix' clipping ok.

    However, they can't actually repair the track but 'recreate' the likely truncated wave shape ...

    If meters aren't showing clipping it could be pre-amp crunching as opposed to digital.

    Knowing your gain stages is very important.


  • #3
    dav nagle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭dav nagle


    In pro tools you can use the pen to smooth off clipped audio files, zoom in in the wav, very close, and identify where the wav file is broken then fix it with pen. I am sure any daw can do it. Probably best to record it again though if it's a diseased file.


  • #4
    ClutchIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭ClutchIt


    Thanks guys...

    I might just record it again. I always find it way easier to get the second guitar track almost perfectly in time once I have the first one playing along behind. It can take me a good while to get the first one done tho! So it mightn't take me too long. If it was my first guitar tho or my bass I'd try anything to get out of re-recording it!


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