From 334f1b891d6af62896e67783dc3e47630a27fed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cannam <cannam@all-day-breakfast.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:43:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ... but don't do so ad infinitum, if some processing problem
 is causing implausibly high output values

---
 main/main.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/main/main.cpp b/main/main.cpp
index 6404fbe..6369a25 100644
--- a/main/main.cpp
+++ b/main/main.cpp
@@ -725,6 +725,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                          << "reduced gain of " << gain
                          << " (supply --ignore-clipping to avoid this)" << endl;
                 }
+                const float mingain = 0.75f;
+                if (gain < mingain) {
+                    cerr << "WARNING: Clipped values were implausibly high: "
+                         << "something wrong with input or process - "
+                         << "not reducing gain below " << mingain << endl;
+                    gain = mingain;
+                    ignoreClipping = true;
+                }
                 successful = false;
                 break;
             }