Nijmegen, Holland, 15.06.2003, Fields of rock festival

[no leaf clover]

could you tell me what you mean with 'clipped'?
Then I know what I have to check.

This was one of my first torrents so I'm not so experienced with creating and uploading torrents.

Basically this is what I did:
I received the files in a trade and burned them to CD with no pause between the tracks.
A couple of days ago I ripped to tracks to .wav format, created a torrent and uploaded the torrent here.
The tracks were in .wav format when I received them.

[slayerdiabolus]

What speed did you burn the .wav tracks to CD at?

[no leaf clover]

Well, it's a long time ago that I burned the CD's, but I think it was at 48x.

What has that go to do with clipping and what is clipping exactly?

I don't have any problems with my CD's, they play fine, I just played them a few days ago.

So if anybody can explain what clipping is, I know what I have to check.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

Clipping: distorsion, overdrive, saturation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_%28audio%29

The reason could be that the taper set a too much high input level but it's not the case here because the mp3 boot of the same recording doesn't have this problem.

The mp3 boot sounds quieter but less distorted:

02___No_Remorse.mp3

your lossless boot:

wav.png

As you can see, it's so loud we can't even see the waveform

the mp3:

mp3.png

No distorsion here

Either you received the files like that and we can do nothing, either you did something wrong when you burnt or ripped the CD (with some rippers/burning software it's possible to amplify the files)

[no leaf clover]

well, I haven't changed any settings while ripping the CD's, so I haven't got a clue where this comes from.
I didn't alter or change anything to the files.

Do you know which settings could have caused this clipping when you rip CD's?

I used CDex to rip the CD's.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

Do you still have the original files? If yes, check how it looks.
If no compare your CD and the WAV files on your computer. If they sound the same, it's not a ripping problem. If the WAV sounds much louder, it's a ripping problem

[no leaf clover]

allright, I will check the files, I will put info here asap

[no leaf clover]

Allright, it's been a while, but I've checked the files.
I received the files like that so there's nothing we can do.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

Ok, thanks for the update

[frantik2k3]

So Mike, will this one end up on your trading list? I'm leaning to a 'no' when it comes to my site.