Clipped Tone — intentionally clipped (WAV)
A 440 Hz tone driven past full scale and hard-clipped so its peaks are flat-topped — an intentionally clipped signal for testing clip and true-peak detection, distortion metering, and de-clipping tools.
Specifications
- Sample Rate
- 44100 Hz
- Bit Depth
- 16
- Channels
- 1
- Frequency
- 440 Hz
- Note
- intentionally hard-clipped (flat-topped) at 0 dBFS
- Duration Sec
- 2
What is a .wav file?
WAV (Waveform Audio) is a RIFF-based container that typically holds uncompressed linear PCM audio, though it can wrap other codecs. Because samples are stored raw, files are large but lossless and simple to read, with configurable sample rate, bit depth, and channel count. It is the standard format for high-fidelity and intermediate audio.
How to use this file
Use an example WAV to test PCM decoding, sample-rate and bit-depth handling, waveform rendering, and audio pipelines that need a lossless reference source.
How to use this file for testing
“Clipped Tone — intentionally clipped (WAV)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Audio analysis, Error handling. Pure tones, sweeps, and noise with known frequencies and levels for testing spectrum, level, and waveform tools.
Documented properties for this file: 16-bit · 1 ch. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Media fixtures are short and synthetic by design. Prefer waveform or transcript ground truth in the same group when measuring ASR, trim, upscale, or sync tools; do not assume broadcast-quality masters.
Code examples
<audio controls preload="none" src="clipped-tone.wav"></audio>Related files
- wavTone with Click/Pop TransientA clean 440 Hz tone interrupted by a short high-amplitude click at 0.4s — for click/pop removal tools.
- wavAudio Editing Edge WAV 01PCM edge waveform 01 carrying controlled hard clipping for edit-pipeline recovery checks. Stable P8 artifact p8-audio-edge-wav-01.
- wavAudio Editing Edge WAV 02PCM edge waveform 02 carrying a controlled silence window for edit-pipeline recovery checks. Stable P8 artifact p8-audio-edge-wav-02.
- wavAudio Editing Edge WAV 03PCM edge waveform 03 carrying controlled hard clipping for edit-pipeline recovery checks. Stable P8 artifact p8-audio-edge-wav-03.
- wavAudio Editing Edge WAV 04PCM edge waveform 04 carrying a controlled silence window for edit-pipeline recovery checks. Stable P8 artifact p8-audio-edge-wav-04.
- wavAudio Editing Edge WAV 05PCM edge waveform 05 carrying controlled hard clipping for edit-pipeline recovery checks. Stable P8 artifact p8-audio-edge-wav-05.
Generated by generation/audio_realistic.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.