i like digital clipping; my take on it is basically unless you are running mackies with those titanium dome fucking tweeters and your d/a converters are too accurate and so the clipping sounds like metal being shredded with all the consequences of a metal shredder on your ears (and you're not into that), digital clipping to a certin point on a whole song makes it sound badass thru the d/a/ converters of a mixer, a stereo channel, softer speakers or any other analog stage.. digital does not remain digital if you play it out into the world; it's a certain aesthetic i've grown into especially with industrial and hardcore sounds, and the new dsp chips and converters in certain fx processors that take digital clipping to not only a new extreme but very tasty distortion textures useful for the expression of those aesthetics..
.. so i've played the tracks from an unmastered cd with clearly clipping levels and i can say i'm pleased with the results, if nobody else is.. i love the sound of a sound system being pushed to the limit, whether it's a tube amp or a MOSFET and digital clipping artfully applied in a track whether using software distortion devices to achieve the sound or not (usually not) does the trick very nicely.. probably not for d'n'b, where your shit absolutely must sound like Simon @ the Exchange or Andy C mixed it.
.. so i've played the tracks from an unmastered cd with clearly clipping levels and i can say i'm pleased with the results, if nobody else is.. i love the sound of a sound system being pushed to the limit, whether it's a tube amp or a MOSFET and digital clipping artfully applied in a track whether using software distortion devices to achieve the sound or not (usually not) does the trick very nicely.. probably not for d'n'b, where your shit absolutely must sound like Simon @ the Exchange or Andy C mixed it.