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August 31, 2025
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Waveform Clipping Overlay (Visual Red Highlights) Feature in Adobe Audition

  • August 31, 2025
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As a music producer and audio editor, I often boost bass and intentionally allow clipping (especially on drums and kicks) to achieve punchy, loud mixes. However, Adobe Audition currently lacks an easy way to *visually identify clipped samples directly on the waveform*—unlike Audacity, which marks clipped peaks in red (Show Clipping Visually).

This feature is critical because:
- It helps me *see exactly where clipping occurs*, enabling me to control and preserve dynamic energy without over-limiting.
- It avoids over-normalization, which can result in inconsistent loudness across a track.
- It enhances precision in mixing workflows, especially for genres relying on intentional clipping for impact (e.g., hip-hop, EDM, bass-heavy tracks).

A waveform overlay marking clipped regions (0 dBFS) would be immensely helpful. Please consider adding this feature to Audition's waveform view.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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September 1, 2025

Slight snag - Audition uses a Floating Point engine to process audio with an outrageously wide dynamic range (about 1500dB and no, that's not a mistype), and there's no concept of 'clipping' in this format. If you increase the level of your audio so that it's a solid block of green and save it like that as a 32-bit FP file, then upon reopening it and normalizing, you'll have all your audio back as normal.