BuzzCut | The Erosion Clipper

An excellent clipper that lets you go at least 1dB louder than all the others and sounds cleaner at the same volume. Tested against Gold Clip, Ash, Fire The Clip, Classic Clipper, Saturate, Standard Clip, etc. They all have their own unique sound, and Buzzcut is a welcome addition to the list. It's found its place on my master bus and I think it'll stay there for a while :).

This is one of the best and most innovative plugins out there right now.

Buzzcut is a brilliant cut on a theory i played around with before, where injected dithering dithering noise working in tandem with clipping and and some handy controls allow to gain level and at the same time reduce digital harshness from the algorithmic processes, an itb version of what the process of a digital ADDA converter naturally does to the sound, which results in a more full and pleasant sound (dare i say analog-y) of whatever you throw on to it.

Level AND aural creaminess ?! Count me in.

The plugin itself is really well thought of and properly designed - clear and straight forward, the small but indispensable controls on the clippers and tools (like two dc offsets), allow to manipulate the signal in a way that is difficult to do with a full chain of dithers and clippers. Easy to use and sounds great.

It's marketed for mixbus and mastering duties, but i suggest using it on individual busses and even instruments.

Been dreaming with a tool like this and i couldn't possible done it better, bravo! Straight to my toolbox and it should go to yours too.

I am blown away by the sound of this clipper. One of the first clippers in a while to truly do something different and the sound quality pays off. Ignoring all of the knee and asymmetrical settings, the hard clipper alone sounds so much more interesting when pushed hard compared to other hard knee clippers. Yes, there is still distortion, but it doesn't bother the ear as much. I tried using this heavily on a master and was shocked how well it held up comparing it to two other commonly used mastering clippers.

If I had one critique, it's that the controls are a bit finnicky and hard to wrap my head around. Some of the buttons kept getting engaged when I tried to just use the knobs, which kept throwing me off. I think those kinks will get worked out though, and this clipper is truly groundbreaking in its audio quality.

Interesting approach. It maintains clarity better than other clippers, sound remains crisp and defined; if I wouldn't know I would have suspected some type of multiband clipping. Because of that clarity, even at the same volume, it has the effect of sounding a bit louder.

I like the idea of offering IIR and FIR options for the oversampling filters (everybody should do that IMO). Aliasing is nicely kept in check, especially at 16x, without eating a ton of CPU. I also like the noise being able to mask it, basically an original implementation of dither, but with some interesting shaping and level options.

I'd love to have some kind of db scale on one side of the oscilloscope, just to have hint of how much it clips, but other than that it's a solid release.

I've already got way to many clippers, but I'm really liking this. This is a different and a fresh approach. It somehow uses noise to modulate the clipping to avoid inharmonic distortion and aliasing. I was able to push an already pushed mix even more without any audible consequences, reaching one extra dB than before, easily. When pushing hard the distortion is somehow more pleasing and the material remains clear and open.

It's a really well laid out plugin, but it takes a little time to get used to and understand everything and some settings are a little hard to grasp at first. Luckily there are helpful pop-up tips when you hover over the various buttons and sliders so that makes it more easy. It's got delta mode, so it's easy to set up and listen to how much you are affecting, and autogain. Both linear and minimum phase OS up to 16x is a big plus. Wish it had offline settings though. I appreciate the graphics also, and being able to see what your doing to the waveform.

I've been facinating by using noise in various subtle ways to enhance sources, so I really enjoyed playing with upward noise also, for adding textures. Reminds me a bit of fidef and similar plugins.

It's not just a clipper, but a creative sound-shaping tool! Everything seems very well thought out, and I'm not missing much, except maybe a manual. And offline OS settings.

Would recomend trying it out.