No, I understand clipping quite well. We were also referring to digital clipping, which is different than analogue clipping. Any signal raised above 0dB in a digital signal results in bad clipping. Sometimes, with analogue equipment, over driving a signal "just a touch" can give a nice type of distortion, but with digital, it's all bad. On the empeg, you would only notice this as the volume got closer to 0dB.