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Basically I was laying down a bassline to one of my bands tracks for the upcoming album release a couple of nights back. The funny thing is I just couldn't get a sound that sounded good in the mix in my usual arsenal.

What did I end up with?

Well I up the input gain on the RH450 so the clip light was coming on a LOT (I was playing in the mix at the time) and it sounded great! Listened to the track in isolation and it is bloody horrid :lol: it hairy, undefined mush... which it turns out is EXACTLY what the track needed for the bass part in the particular track... go figure :lol:

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Yep, I've encountered this myself.

51m0n and other knowledgable folk here will probably string me up for saying this, but there can be times when clipping can be used deliberately to "good" effect. For example, in the 50 Cent track 'In Da Club' the kick drum famously clips and actually sounds all the fatter for it (well, it's not [i]that[/i] famous an example... I read about it recently in some music geek magazine, Computer Music I think it was. And I'm no fan of 50 Cent, just for the record!).

I know when producing my own stuff, there are times when I think something sounds good only to check the meter and see red lights across the board.

I think generally clipped audio does sound awful - it's non-musical noise at the end of the day. And you'd be better off trying to get the effect you're after using a distortion pedal or overdrive, etc. But it's still fun turning things up to 11 from time to time, just for the hell of it! :crazy:

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[quote name='longtimefred' timestamp='1352306739' post='1861392']
i always find that in the studio, i have tons more gain added to the sound than i do in live shows or rehearsals to cut through a bit more. End up sounding like Lemmy! its awesome.
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This was so I cut through LESS :D

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At home practising alone, a deeper fuller sound works best for me. However, for gigging with the rest of the band, I always have a more lower-middy sound, pushing the 180hz and 340hz sliders much more, and with more grind dialled in. Works much better in that context and carries further out front too.

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