May 31, 2003 08:45 pm From what I can gather from your post - no you are fine.
"Clipping" only really occurs when you are passing a signal from the Analouge domain into the Digital Domain via an A2D converter (eg: recording a signal into your PC's soundcard).
Once the signal has been captured digitally, it is impossible to cause 'clipping' to occur - the danger that you now face is running out of headroom (the amount of spare "bits" (ie: bitdepth) the computer has to mix the signals with; however, as you are using Nuendo you have very little to worry about in this respect (Nuendo (and most other Steinberg products) run with internal 24bit registers.).
However, the thing you should watch out for is when you mix a file down to a 2-track master - if you set the levels too hot then the peaks of the wave form can easily be "chopped-off" which, altough won't cause 'physical' digital clipping (that nasty, nasty click / crunch noise you get when things are clipped) it will destroy the dynamic and a degree of the acoustical data.
Just make sure you don't have too many 'red-lights' when mixing - and make sure your 2 track master is peaking under 0dB and everything will be fine.
jues.