Gold Clip

Gold Clip is a clipper, loudness saturator, mid- and high-frequency peak contour processor, distortion device, box tone generator, clip clock and true parallel mixer. Gold Clip can be a mastering processor, a unique dynamic effect for mixing and a creative tool for production. It can be clean and reserved, or loud, angry, and distorted.

There are three main functions of Gold Clip: Clipper, Gold, and Alchemy. The clipping behavior is inspired by the overloading effects of two famous mastering converters. Gold recreates the unique loudness saturation processing found on those devices, and Alchemy is inspired by the mid- and high-frequency peak contouring on the modern mastering processor. The powerful clipper allows you to increase loudness through a unique clean clipping processor. Gold allows you to amplify low-level information without changing the character of the peaks, and Alchemy allows you to reduce the unwanted effects of clipping by dynamically manipulating the mid- and high frequencies as the signal approaches the clip point. It is truly a unique sound that you will hear on many hit records to come.

Gold Clip uses cutting-edge digital signal processing techniques to create a versatile, high-precision clipping effect with tons of flexibility and highly optimized performance. The primary clipping algorithms are modeled from a pair of well-known hardware units using integrated wave-shaping in conjunction with variable oversampling, resulting in a clipping sound that is clean, natural, and free of aliasing artifacts. Gold Clip also includes a pair of unique loudness saturation algorithms called Gold and a unique mid- and high-frequency peak shaper called Alchemy that work in conjunction with clipping algorithms to provide a maximally smooth and loud master. Additionally, all the signal processing algorithms achieve the best performance possible on modern CPUs by utilizing cache locality and data-level parallelism.

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