Quote:
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.

well, for what its worth, you could boost it up 6db and then never set the volume higher than -6db...

i mean there are ways around it, but it may be worth noting the limitations. it sounds like you're familiar enough with parametric EQing that I shoudl just let you do your job