If you use ReaComp or another digital compressor that allows you to go to extremes in the same way, you can play with the borders between a clipper and a limiter. I do this sometimes to get different flavors of distortion.
Set RMS time, attack, and release to 0. Set the ratio to infinity. You now have a hard clipper. You can make it a soft clipper by adding some soft knee, or make it some strange aggressive distortion by slightly increasing the attack and/or release time.
If you turn on "classic attack" and auto release in ReaComp, turn the knee up a lot, lower the ratio, and turn the release high enough to eliminate as much distortion as possible (usually still 100ms or less), you get 1176-ish behavior. This behavior sounds best with oversampling (AA) enabled at around 8x. It's some secret sauce.
Clipper in mastering chain
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- KVRAF
- 1793 posts since 9 Apr, 2011
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- KVRAF
- 4710 posts since 26 Nov, 2015 from Way Downunder
+1 ClipShifter paid version is great. Takes seconds to setup and sounds nigh invisible. Hardly need to mess with anything else, just lower the ceiling, set the oversample and done. The visual display shows you exactly what's going on.
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- Waaaaahhh
- 2224 posts since 30 Jul, 2001 from montreal, quebec,canada
Maybe i'm way off base but aren't there 2 types of "clippers" one is Distortion the other is suppose to be unhearable
the type of Clipper i,m tlking about is
supposed to impose a ceiling to your peaks
so it would make sense to put it Right last
in the Dynamic FX chain after a Limiter
and isn't Dither just a bunch of Noise so that when u convert 24 bit to 16 bit the Low-Low volume don't just get chopped off ?
the type of Clipper i,m tlking about is
supposed to impose a ceiling to your peaks
so it would make sense to put it Right last
in the Dynamic FX chain after a Limiter
and isn't Dither just a bunch of Noise so that when u convert 24 bit to 16 bit the Low-Low volume don't just get chopped off ?
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If not Make a Mac version of your Plugins Please.
https://soundcloud.com/realmarco
...everyone is out to get me!!!!!!!
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- KVRist
- 239 posts since 21 Apr, 2010
Any EETA ?
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- KVRist
- 85 posts since 2 Jun, 2014
I guess in the perfect world, mastering engineers wouldn't have to use clippers in mastering.
Or even limiters in some cases, with the exception of taming some excessive peaks.
But the world is far from perfect.
And now mastering engineers basically have to print out pictures with the brightness turned way up for people in a dark room to be able to see the pictures.
Because the people are - for some reason - not able to turn up the lights.
The tip about ReaComp by nineofkings is great, btw.
It's a very versatile plugin.
Or even limiters in some cases, with the exception of taming some excessive peaks.
But the world is far from perfect.
And now mastering engineers basically have to print out pictures with the brightness turned way up for people in a dark room to be able to see the pictures.
Because the people are - for some reason - not able to turn up the lights.
The tip about ReaComp by nineofkings is great, btw.
It's a very versatile plugin.
