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Gorillaz may well have heard of dynamic range, but it doesn't look like it shows in their CDs - at a glance, the waveforms seem worrying too.

Try this free GPL licensed declipper

Wot I wrote:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:remast er:remaster

See what it does first here:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:cd

It can solve most problems, I'd be interested if people can try it on the Californication tracks - I'm not going to buy that CD because the mastering is so bad. The downloadable porgram suite contains daapd - an iTunes server than runs on Linux, and de-clips any WAV file requested on the fly.

My program de-clips most stuff using a variety of techniques detailed on the web-page, and can quite easily be used as the front-end to any digital encoding program as required.

I know the information is technically lost, but this program really does make a huge difference.

Try this free GPL licensed declipper

Wot I wrote:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:remast er:remaster

See what it does first here:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:cd

It can solve most problems, I'd be interested if people can try it on the Californication tracks - I'm not going to buy that CD because the mastering is so bad. The downloadable porgram suite contains daapd - an iTunes server than runs on Linux, and de-clips any WAV file requested on the fly.

My program de-clips most stuff using a variety of techniques detailed on the web-page, and can quite easily be used as the front-end to any digital encoding program as required.

I know the information is technically lost, but this program really does make a huge difference.

Modern music is now a solid block of sound - the pictures really do tell the whole story..

Graphs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:cd

The Black-Eyed-Peas CD I bought has 0.6 of a second of music entirely clipped out, and the average clip rate across the whole album is 54.4Hz?

The worst CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:sha me

The Best CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:fam e

Please bear in mind this is a limited selection of CDs, and CDs mastered in different countries can have very very different clip rates - even though they appear to be the identical CD.

Modern music is now a solid block of sound - the pictures really do tell the whole story..

Graphs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:cd

The Black-Eyed-Peas CD I bought has 0.6 of a second of music entirely clipped out, and the average clip rate across the whole album is 54.4Hz?

The worst CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:sha me

The Best CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:fam e

Please bear in mind this is a limited selection of CDs, and CDs mastered in different countries can have very very different clip rates - even though they appear to be the identical CD.

Modern music is now a solid block of sound - the pictures really do tell the whole story..

Graphs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:cd

The Black-Eyed-Peas CD I bought has 0.6 of a second of music entirely clipped out, and the average clip rate across the whole album is 54.4Hz?

The worst CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:sha me

The Best CDs:
http://www.cutestudio.net/doku.php?id=hi-fi:cd:fam e

Please bear in mind this is a limited selection of CDs, and CDs mastered in different countries can have very very different clip rates - even though they appear to be the identical CD.