If there's one music-related thing I don't know much about, it's mixing, and if, after 3+ years of making music, I barely know more about mixing than I knew when I started, clearly there's a problem.
So, what confuses me the most about mixing is how we're supposed to "mix everything under the 0 dB limit". Let me see if I got this straight: 0 dB is some sort of limit that the waveform of our songs must abide to. If we skip 0 dB, the waveform "peaks" and the top part of the waveform (the part which skipped the 0 dB limit) is cut off. This produces distortion and the more of the waveform is cut off, the more distortion there is, otherwise known as clipping.
Is what I'm saying correct? If so, why would they call the limit 0 dB? I thought 0 dB was nearly absolute silence in reality.
Last question: Is it bad if our songs skip the 0 dB limit? I see it happen to my songs all the time, but I never hear any clipping unless I turn the volume up to ridiculous amounts.
Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.
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