Sure. Whatever. Like it really matters when you can't possibly hear the less than a nanosecond of minor clipping. I don't mean to get defensive and pissy, which I'm prone to do, but if we set it so there was literally no random clipping spikes, everything else would be incredibly quiet and the noise of the microphone would become much more prominent. Either way I'm not very interested in continuing this non-relevant topic.
You brought up clipping at the recording stage. And since this is a public forum that others may stumble upon to I think it is valid for me to state that these days (using 24bits equipment) allowing for clipping on the recording stage means you are really doing something wrong.
Also, the clipping could get worse and more noticeable when you or somebody else encodes the lossless source to a lossy codec.
But indeed, this is drifting off-topic from your original question, so if you want to continue this, better take it to 'Beyond Musicbee'.
Now I'm confused. When I set MB to -1dB it gives me an alert that it needs to be set at -.3dB to avoid clipping.
MusicBee tells you there to adjust the value with... Not to set it to...
Could that be the confusion?
I mentioned clipping as a question of how does MB do it, and how much clipping is occurring. Which is relevant to the topic at hand. If it's clipping the top .1%, I don't really care, I'm not going to hear it. If it's clipping 5% or more, that's more substantial and I'd like to know which is the case. As is, MB doesn't tell you how much clipping is occurring.
I don't think so. aside from it not explicitly stating one way or another, as mentioned if I make it -1.3dB it still says it needs to be set -.3dB. It doesn't say if the slider should be at -.3, or to reduce a further -.3dB, but either way it doesn't change the clipping warning.
It just says track -.1dB when I'm set to -1dB. Also of note is that sometimes it'll say album values and track values. The clipping doesn't make much sense anyways. If I have it set to -1dB and digital clipping doesn't occur until over 0dB I don't understand how it apparently has clipping.