What do you know about Amplitude Overflow?

[ÜberTriangle]

Is Amplitude Overflow a legit term? Can it be "crappy"?

[Sugarholik]

I understand it as clipping, but that's really awkward way to say it :S

[5COPY]

Amplitude:




Most software have an amplitude that shows the wave of the sound and how it goes through. However I'm not sudden on how much it makes a difference in music alone but I'm aware that some waves are more pleasant than others. Atleast that's how I understand it. The main focus though is pretty much physic basics

[Artimeus]

If he's talking about peak amplitude, then I suppose he would be talking about clipping. Otherwise, I really don't think that terminology applies to music so much as it does to digital waveforms in other uses, like radio signals.

EDIT: I just checked the video comments again, he responded with this: "I mean "sound clipping" on melody and bass drum tracks. It sounds bad."

He's a) trolling, or b) his headphone/speaker transducers are wrecked. Probably the latter.

[prettiestPony]

Googling the phrase in quotes only gives about 1100 results, many of which (from a cursory glance) seem to be just showing up because the terms were listed next to each other, not because it was part of the same term. So, it's hardly common usage. My first guess, however, would be, yeah, digital clipping: the wave amplitude gets so high that it "overflows" and gets clipped. That seems to be confirmed by the comment Artimeus found.