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Originally posted by Djsketchbag Okay newb here whats clipping ?

Distortion in the track peak.. Often happens with kicks / cymbal crashes. Without getting too complicated, it's when the peak runs out of room and gets rammed to the ceiling.

yea with the old beatport, i had a crate full of about 200 or so worth of tracks but didnt want to buy all...they made a list of all my tracks for me in an excel sheet and sent it over (links to tracks included)

got a refund on a track that clipped


but im still waiting on 3 tracks for re download for a few months now because they didnt sync when transfering and a i lost them...still waiting...waiting...wait...ing..

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Originally posted by Jer Distortion in the track peak.. Often happens with kicks / cymbal crashes. Without getting too complicated, it's when the peak runs out of room and gets rammed to the ceiling.

Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after....

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Originally posted by cammaxwell Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after....

not only have i found clipping but even skips in the track (def not intentional on the production end)

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Originally posted by El K Dee not only have i found clipping but even skips in the track (def not intentional on the production end)

Exactly, I even had a track that just cut out after 10 seconds before....but they fixed it....

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Originally posted by cammaxwell Yeah, but I don't think the clipping we find in our Breatport tracks is from any production issue.......must be something to do with how they prep it for download. Every time I've done a redownload the track comes out fine after....

I find more often than not it's ass-backwards and rushed mix engineering that causes distortion and clipping, not so much buggered downloads. I can't see how (unless it's the most remote of cases) re-downloading the same MP3 / WAV will make a difference in the sound quality.

Do you enjoy being overcharged? I know I don't. Haven't been back to Beatport since Juno introduced bulk pricing (i.e. buy the whole release, save some cash, and even pay less than a CD = mind-blowing concept, apparently).

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Originally posted by basilisk since Juno introduced bulk pricing

ya, Juno Download is great -- loads of tunes that are not on beatport... Way too many people only stick to one store and miss a lot of quality music coming out. Not to mention how many non- "exclusive" releases get buried within beatport.

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Originally posted by Jer I find more often than not it's ass-backwards and rushed mix engineering that causes distortion and clipping, not so much buggered downloads. I can't see how (unless it's the most remote of cases) re-downloading the same MP3 / WAV will make a difference in the sound quality.

That's what I'm saying, the redownloads ARE better so it can't be from the original production, so it must be some kinda of upload/download issue. I'm sure there are some tracks where the mix down was done poorly and therefore have some clipping issues, I don't remember many of them though myself.

Also, the clipping I'm talking about isn't your typical peak clipping......it can be just a random clipping noise. That's another reason I assume it has to do with how Beatport is uploading/preparing a track for sale/download.

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Oh i've never had a problem with tracks sounding distorted the only thing i've noticed is that once in a while a track reads 68 bpm when its really going at like 128.

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