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.
Code examples
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