Some call it "clipping", others call it "Creative Destruction"! Dictionary Definition: the act of twisting or altering something out of its true, natural, or original state. Definition in Audio Terms: a falsified reproduction of an audio signal caused by change in the wave form of the original signal. Distortion can be a friend or foe in the world or audio. It all depends whether it has been used creatively or not. In audio, the term refers to harmonic distortion, which you s