Clipping test tracks

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Here’s my new goto song for headroom adjustment for clipping:

Album Artist Album Disc# Track# Title Source
Infected Mushroom Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys 1 1 Bliss on Mushrooms Tidal

About 5:30 minutes into the track the rythm will change and your digital filters will require another -1.5dB headroom even on top of Californification which used to be my previous clipping test track.

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Dumb question maybe, but what about using a 0dB sine sweep to be sure?
That‘s how I always do it…
:thinking:

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I should try that but at which frequency?

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… from 10Hz to 24kHz, for example …

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I often will play Little by Little to check. The bass will clip early on if there’s a problem: https://i.imgur.com/0dwVz2U.png

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