Re: artifact in spectrogram analysis

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<Clipping is distortion of the peaks of the waveform by clipping
them off and will appear to reduce the volume level because most
meters only measure the peaks. Clipping makes any clipped recording
sounds rough and it cannot be undone. The answer is to record at a
lower level, nothing else.>>

Yes. However, iZotope's Rx noise reduction suite has a module which uses pr=
edictive waveform reconstruction to mitigate audible clipping. While I won'=
t say it "cures" clipping, it HAS saved a few tracks for me, resulting from=
 over-excited performers, which otherwise would have been unusable. And whe=
n it's a live concert or a once-in-a-lifetime location setting that's a mig=
hty welcome piece of software to know about.

Scott Fraser