What plugins do you use to clip your Drums?

[Hipster Bales]

'Clip your drums'

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Wtf does that mean...?

It means you are chopping the peaks from your drum bus, hence why it’s called clipping (If I’m not mistaken)

[Hipster Bales]

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

I know, that’s the point

[trevdog]

Yum Audio Crispy Clip is my clipper of choice

Represent.

[Igro]

I see the point to clip drums if they have a very strong sharp spike that may clip. That is mostly related to the acoustic drums. Rearly can be observed with the electronic kits (unless you want them to sound digitally dirty).

[ksandvik]

Neutron 5 Clipper as it came with Neutron and the UI makes it easy to see the results, and has tuned hard to soft-clipping. Otherwise most clippers are just fine. It's not exactly rocket science concerning writing a clipper.

[ksandvik]

Note some drum samples have really nasty transient spikes you need to tame.... Or the sample itself is what is is, and you need to take down the peaks for final mastering limiting -- this is really mostly for electronic music, especially if someone needs to play the LUFS wars down to below -6 LUFS (like in modern DnB ack ack).

[TechHaus]

Question to clipper heads, do YOU need a multiband clipper?

I guess Kazrogs Kclip3 and Venomode's newish Mesa come to mind (I'm on Linux so ignorant to the entire clipping ecosystem).

I'm also a Reaper guy so I can roll my own multiband stuff pretty easily, but curious to know if any folks reach for the multiband style plugins a lot more than a single band clipper.

[ChanceB]

Yum Audio Crispy Clip is my clipper of choice

Represent.

I feel like nobody besides me and now you has ever tried this or even heard of it, haha. It’s great