GClip is a wave-shaping signal clipper. It prevents the signal level from exceeding a specified maximum. The clipping function used can be altered to have a hard- or soft-knee. Mastering Clipper, Loudness Meter, Multiband Saturator KClip is the most transparent way to increase the apparent loudness of your masters, tracks, and buses. KClip isn’t just for mastering – in fact, it’s also incredibly useful for adding warmth, distortion, or saturation to individual tracks – use it to fatten up dru. GClip by GVSTClipperFree Download: is a wave-shaping signal clipper. It prevents the signal level from exceeding a speci.
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The Soft_Clipper effect written by Shwa is another hidden gem in the JS effects bundle and one I use a lot in mixing rock music.
A soft clipper takes the loudest peaks and rounds them off. Often this is a more effective way of increasing loudness than a brickwall limiter, it doesn’t pump!
Pushing it hard can cause distortion but when clipping off a couple dB either on a master or individual tracks it can be very transparent.
The JS soft_clipper has only two controls:
Boost increases the input up to 9dB
Clipper Clip-seq
Output brickwall is the ceiling or absolute max output level which can be set from -3 and +1 dBFS
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You can use this on your master bus either before or in place of a brickwall limiter. I find it very useful on kick and snare tracks where I need them to be loud but not actually take up headroom.
Clipper Clip
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