Is it okay for individual instruments to clip?

Hey, I noticed that even though my track isn’t clipping some of my instruments are slightly. They sound fine, like no distortion but it also seems to peak my song a lot, compression just squashes it too much. So should i make sure no instruments clip at all or does it not matter? Thanks

You generally wanna avoid it in the digital domain. Its easy to just turn the gain down.

[quote]jjdejong0 (13/08/2011)[hr]You generally wanna avoid it in the digital domain. Its easy to just turn the gain down.[/quote]



It is easy but then its not loud enough…

the channel mixer is 32 bit float so you can have you channels as loud as you like.



its only the output to your sound card you need to worry about or a plugin on the master buss.

[quote]phil johnston (14/08/2011)[hr]the channel mixer is 32 bit float so you can have you channels as loud as you like.



its only the output to your sound card you need to worry about or a plugin on the master buss.[/quote]



ah ok that really helped ease my mind, thank you very much :stuck_out_tongue: