try a mixdown of your audio and see if clipping occurs.
for me, what happens during multi-track playback is not neccesarily
what happens in a mixdown.

the main culprits of clipping (distortion)in most of my mixes are the
plugins. i often find that i'm overloading some plugin or another and
i've got to find it and turn down the input or output of it.

but your situation reminds me of ADATs, where occasionally i'll go
over 0db with no audible distortion. maybe it's a transient that is
too fast to really register as distortion.


ANup wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>Next to the main bus volume control sliders, we have the db
>>indicator. My question is this : when it crosses 0 db, does
>>that indicate that there will be clipping and thus
>>distortion in the output file? The reason I ask is because :
>>a) At several points in the song, the db indicator hit 1.0
>>and there was NO audible distortion.
>>b) On the track volume sliders, I often push the volume up
>>past the 0db mark and again here no audible distortion
>>artifacts (unless i REALLY push that slider up, but for a
>>few dbs above 0, there is no distortion.)
>>
>>I could just compress the whole thing and strictly limit to
>>0, but I'm doing this ambience swell track and the I want
>>to retain the dynamics ... Please help.
>>regards,
>>Anup
>>
>>P.S : Please forgive me if this question is stupid; I am
>>still learning.
>>
>>