What is clipping?
Clipping is a form of distortion when an amplifier is overdriven past the point of being able to faithfully output a waveform, resulting in the tops of the audio being “clipped” off.1
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Audio vocabulary
Audio vocabulary [[What is gain?]] [[What is noise?]] [[What is the noise floor?]] [[What is clipping?]] [[Volume units]] [[Nonlinear process]]...
How to gain stage
How to gain stage
Everything and anything that amplifies a signal can be called a [[What is gain?|Gain]] stage.