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Use your ears and I believe that everything happens for a reason.

henke wrote:As far as the digital versus analog clipping is concerned: yes, two worlds. But hey, if digital clipping sounds good for someone it sounds good. It does not do this for me, but I also hate Saxophone.... Digital clipping is brutal. Analog saturation is subtle, warm, mellow, moody, with a slight orange tone in the lower mids and a highly defined stereo imagining in the outer worlds.

Robert

"Analogue" & "Digital" are vague terms to use when talking about distorting a waveform as there are different ways of going about it within both worlds, giving very different results.

If you ran anything through a Big Muff, you wouldn't be calling it "subtle", "warm" or "mellow" and digital clipping isn't just running a DAW in the red, try rendering audio at a low bit/sample rate, it's a very different type of distortion.


Putting everything into two categories and claiming everything within that gives the same results is pretty stupid.