Clipping Comverters During Mastering

[Gold]

When my Prism AD2 went down I had to use the Lavry Blue AD until it was fixed. I use a pair of Blue DA's to feed the analog chain and cut lacquers from. I like the DA's better than the AD. The Prism DA2 is the Monitor DAC. I was really happy to get the AD2 back...

 

[MS-TAS]

The Lavry converters have 4 levels of soft saturation that many find quite pleasing.
If that is the "clipping" being discussed, it can be pretty good.
Otherwise, barbaric is pretty close

 

[Tubetec]

In my day when we made up digital masters , a digital 'over' meant you re-cued the tape and had another cut off the transfer , mix or what ever it was ,
nothing ever left the studio with a digital over ,

The kids nowadays , there immune to distortion ,so in the level wars ,standards have been allowed to slip ,
This idea that digital over is a form of level control akin to hitting an analog signal path hard , that the recording is allowed hit above 0dbfs ,who thought these people there trade FFS ?
I note the phrase people are intentionally using digital overload , intentionally misusing it, without a clue seems more appropriate .

So then the high end designers starts figure out the misuse and incorporates about 5 cents worth of components to implement a soft clip , for the high end customers who dont have a clue what their doing ,

Ive a simple rule of thumb for digital recording , if you start getting near 0db FS, back off the level FFS ,never ever intentionally clip the signal in the digital realm ,

Its no wonder modern pop music sounds like shit if turns the transients into a crap shoot.
The youth of today no no limit to tollerable distortion ,

Theres a quote somewhere back in time ,attributed to the BBC sound studios ,
words to this effect ,
the job of the engineer is to prevent distortions from the equipment becoming objectionable .

 

[JohnRoberts]

In my day when we made up digital masters , a digital 'over' meant you re-cued the tape and had another cut off the transfer , mix or what ever it was ,
nothing ever left the studio with a digital over ,

The kids nowadays , there immune to distortion ,so in the level wars ,standards have been allowed to slip ,
This idea that digital over is a form of level control akin to hitting an analog signal path hard , that the recording is allowed hit above 0dbfs ,who thought these people there trade FFS ?
I note the phrase people are intentionally using digital overload , intentionally misusing it, without a clue seems more appropriate .

So then the high end designers starts figure out the misuse and incorporates about 5 cents worth of components to implement a soft clip , for the high end customers who dont have a clue what their doing ,

Ive a simple rule of thumb for digital recording , if you start getting near 0db FS, back off the level FFS ,never ever intentionally clip the signal in the digital realm ,

Its no wonder modern pop music sounds like shit if turns the transients into a crap shoot.
The youth of today no no limit to tollerable distortion ,

Theres a quote somewhere back in time ,attributed to the BBC sound studios ,
words to this effect ,
the job of the engineer is to prevent distortions from the equipment becoming objectionable .

modern a/d technology is much more forgiving of saturation... early digital convertors didn't clip, at overflow they would roll over to zero again.

Try to imagine a full scale click/thump (no bueno).

JR