I am working on a project and will need to send the stems to a professional for final mixing/mastering. The master track is clipping and some of the individual tracks are clipping. Ideally I would have done a better job with gain staging, but I did not. There was not any clipping when recording the tracks.
If I turn down the master track until there is no clipping, will this eliminate clipping on any of the stems that I plan to export? Or do I need to go through every individual track to adjust it's volume and eliminate its clipping and also turn down the master track until there is no clipping?
Likewise, if a submix is not clipping, will the stems still clip when exported?
Finally, such as in ProTools, is there a way to force the clipping indicator to "stick" so I can see if it clipped at any point during the song, even when I wasn't watching?
Clipping
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Re: Clipping
Hi Greg, whereas that video is helpful in explaining how I should have approached the project initially, it didn't really answer my question. My question is if the short cuts I mentioned above can compensate for my previous mistakes?
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Re: Clipping
Your question if turning master down will stop clipping on tracks is no.
All tracks must not be clipping first.
All tracks must not be clipping first.
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