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Originally Posted by Ghostwheel  Just try the following:
Get any 24bit audio source and amplify it up or down by 80db (yes eighty) up or down (it won't clip). |
If you save the intermediary step as a 24 bit file, it most certainly
will clip. (Unless your peak level is -80 dBfs in which case you have bigger issues
)
My guess is, when you did this test, you used an application that keeps the intermediary step in a floating point format.
Alistair