Age old topic of Volume Control

Actually the signal transported via usb is in one of the USB audio data format

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/frmts10.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi5rvvGv6nvAhWhtXEKHbLJB8UQFjAAegQIARAC&usg=AOvVaw3tYq_EjIM0p3zl69X23qTO

But it isn’t an audio signal

Cool! Reading this now. I haven’t read a technical paper like this in a while. Thank you.

Yep, I linked the wrong PDF.

Fact remains: You can clip an audio signal in digital or analog domain.

I agree with that.

edit: but i don’t if you mean that you can clip the digital signal itself, the digital clipping has to do always with the space (bit) and the information you want to write not the clipping of the wave used for the transmission of the information.