KVR Audio

Apshaper rules.

I really appreciate all the tone and saturation shaping possibilities....

I have a query about using it as a clipper, in the "traditional", brick wall sense.

It seems to always be able to go over 0dbfs.

So i'm just wondering if it's possible to set it up like your typical clipper plugin. Where you push the input and it brick walls at the output.

The "naive" quality setting of apShaper is the only one that doesn't overshoot the limit. This is caused by Gibbs phenomenon and unavoidable as long as no compromises in the antialiasing are allowed. The design goal of apShaper was to have as little antialiasing/inharmonic additions as possible and both the oversampling stage and the antiderivative antialiasing stage can lead to a bit of overshoot - especially if high-frequency content is present.

With linear phase oversampling the overshoot is less as it becomes centered on the sharp signal features that usually cause it.

It can be tamed manually using a high-cut filter or by lowering the output volume.

IMHO there should always only be one final step in a mixing process that truly sets the max level (and not to 0dB..). it needs to be the final step and apShaper is not the plugin to use for that.

Understood, and thank you for your reply!

Thanks... i was wondering the exact same thing