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Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:55 am

GClip

cdbaksu · Post by **cdbaksu** » Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:10 pm

Apogee Soft Limit on the drum bus.

lukeio · Post by **lukeio** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 1:51 pm

For Lo-Fi beats, I actually prefer a basic soft clipper over a transparent limiter. It adds that nice grit and saturation to the kick that you just can't get otherwise. Sometimes 'clean' isn't what you want.

Tawix · Post by **Tawix** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:57 pm

Hipster Bales wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:54 am
Tawix wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:17 pm Hey Guys,
i heard a lot of mixing engineers but also mastering engineers are using clippers plugins or converters to clip their Drums. Most of the time it's Kicks.

Do you clip your drums? What plugins do you use?
I don't clip my drums. instead I EQ them.

it's nothing alike

Hipster Bales · Post by **Hipster Bales** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 10:41 pm

Tawix wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:57 pm
Hipster Bales wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:54 am
Tawix wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:17 pm Hey Guys,
i heard a lot of mixing engineers but also mastering engineers are using clippers plugins or converters to clip their Drums. Most of the time it's Kicks.

Do you clip your drums? What plugins do you use?
I don't clip my drums. instead I EQ them.
it's nothing alike

nevermind lol (What I was saying is that I use EQ to manage my drums instead of a clipper)

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Feb 27, 2026 2:32 am

Gclip, MWaveshaper, KClip. Some of my old compressors have a hard clip on the output.

djanthonyw · Post by **djanthonyw** » Fri Feb 27, 2026 3:50 am

Arturia Bus Peak, Pulsar Magnum P44, or SPL Machine Head.

Dexter US · Post by **Dexter US** » Fri Feb 27, 2026 4:11 am

I play around with transient plugins since I have them as I get more plugins into my drum effects folder I will try to figure out what to do with them as well.. allot of the time I don't use any effects at all on my percussion type sounds. I just collect the clippers in case I have a use for them later.

swilow11 · Post by **swilow11** » Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:14 pm

Generally Kclip. You can get it free but the full version is cheap and has multiband and several other distortion algorithms.

Newfangled Audio Saturate is also excellent and transparent. More often than not though, I just Bitwig Overs module for basic clipping.

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Tue Mar 10, 2026 4:24 am

Heavyocity Fury, the clipper in T-Racks, and Akai's clipper. Newfangled gets a lot of love so I might have to check that out, I have clipper/distortion addiction so..

Daru925 · Post by **Daru925** » Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:47 pm

Ableton saturator and roar for multiband.

Awdio · Post by **Awdio** » Mon Apr 13, 2026 8:12 pm

tbh I just use the stock plugins in logic. maybe my ears aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate the fancier plugins for this.

pekbro · Post by **pekbro** » Mon Apr 13, 2026 9:59 pm

Using this currently...

At least I think it's clipping them, maybe not...

https://www.cutclassic.com/bad-math/

badM.PNG

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:06 pm

You should never clip your drums. It’s a recipe for instant listener fatigue.

Instead, use tape saturation to achieve a dynamically responsive splatter.

Seafire Mk2 · Post by **Seafire Mk2** » Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:13 pm

'Clip your drums'

?

Wtf does that mean...?

What plugins do you use to clip your Drums?