Audacity help... digital clipping (???)

[FuzzFace]

Being the audacious man that I am...


I am mixing a song in Audacity.
It sounds great when I play it back in Audacity.

When I export it as an MP3, I get something that could be called "digital clipping" as if my levels are too high.

Does this have anything to do with my Hz settings or my Kbps?

[cuthbert]

If it sounds fine in Audacity, try exporting an uncompressed 16 bit 44 kHz WAV file - if that sounds fine, then the problem is with your mp3 settings or encoder.

[FuzzFace]

Thanks cuthbert... I'm not sure if this resolved the problem, but it helped orient me a bit more in the use of Audacity.

I reduced the levels on all of the tracks and tinkered with some other stuff... the good news is that the problem is gone but the bad news is I don't know what the problem was!