2. Re: artifact in spectrogram created using Raven

["mipartitus" mipartitus]

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> wrote:

> 3) Is clipping the same thing as aliasing (referred to in the Raven manua=
l)? If so, then I know what you're referring to, but if not then I'm still =
not sure what exactly that is.

No, clipping occurs when the range of your input signal is larger than your=
 analog to digital converter can handle (usually when the gain is too high)=
. The signal values outside the range are simply given the maximum (or mini=
mum) possible values in the quantization process. You can check if this hap=
pened by scrutinizing the waveform. In clipped parts, the tops of peaks are=
 not smooth but have been chopped off at a fixed level.

Gabriel