Gold Clip from Schwabe Digital is Out

[Frankie.T]

I don't know if you followed the pre-release comunications, but it became a kind of meme, cause it's been postponed multiple time, and they also made some jokes about that, at a certain point i was even doubtful if this was a kind of long april fool or what. But it turned out to be a real plugin, and today is finally out.

For those who doesn't know this clipper is meant to be a kind of digital recreation of a famous D/A converter, Lavry Gold. So here is not just about clipping but also about saturation. It's been told that back in the days engineers used that D/A as "secret weapon" and when i say secret i mean, they hided that converter from people eyes in their studios for real!

If you want to try it, there is a free demo
https://www.schwabedigital.com/

If you want to take a look on it before trying it, or just have an overal idea, i made a video you can watch it here

[Vortifex]

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[teilo]

199 bucks intro price for a clipper, yeesh...

They think their magic pixie dust is all that, and essential. So good luck with that.

[dionenoid]

For Lavry Gold clipping :
- SIR Standardclip 'soft clip pro' mode
- Kazrog KClip 'crisp' mode

Both these clippers are way cheaper, have far better oversampling options, use less cpu, and are proven reliable workhorses.

Gold Clip has several major issues btw : huge DC offset and hearable high roll-offs.

[jens]

But then again it's Gold after all...

[TBlake]

Aliasing of the Alchemy knob when pushing it is troubling. Especially at this price point.

[MrBeagleton]

But then again it's Gold after all...

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[EmilEert]

Tested the plugin and the Gold function of it sounds very nice. Not sure if it's worth the full price for everybody, but I can see MEs who often use clippers to find a lot of use for this.

[dblock]

I have Acustica Audio Ash and I can't hear any improvement over that.