| If it sounds good, it is good.
however,
Clipping is just one tool out of many in the ME's arsenal to get the volume up.......if you give the ME a clipped file, you may have painted him into a corner, leaving him less options to do his thing.
Also, what you now may consider to be acceptable, distortion-wise, you may later regret, once you've accrued more experience and better monitoring.
So the moral of the tale is, spend a couple of minutes doing an extra version without the clipping just in case.
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