Preventing clipping in your digital audio projects
Accidentally clipping your audio is one of the most common mistakes to see, when you’re first learning how to use a Digital Audio Workstation.
I’ve covered this topic in detail inside of an article called Clipping in the Analog vs. Digital Domain. For today, here’s a video showing how to check multiple audio files for clipping at once using a command-line tool available on Apple computers called “afclip”:
Using the afclip Terminal command to check for clipping in audio files.
The steps
On an Apple computer, open the Terminal application.
Type “afclip” into the command line, followed by a space.
Drag one audio file, or multiple audio files, into the Terminal window.
Press enter.
If you see “no samples clipped” after doing this, you’re good to go!
