Well... recently, while browsing the sister site, I saw the Gold Clip and wanted to try it again, since I use the KNOCK clipper as my main clipper. But for some reason, in the configuration you'll see below, I love how the Gold Clip sounds, followed by the KCLIP, but I think this one is adding a delay? Which is compensated for when you restart playback from the beginning... And the KNOCK clipper does something different because I have to add gain first and then see how much “clip” to add with the center knob. Then I do gain staging...

Does anyone have or have had experience with these three? Am I delusional, or does the Gold Clip sound much better than the others?

Thanks in advance for any info!

Pics: Sub kick sample img / GoldCLip / Knock Clipper / KClip.
https://imgur.com/a/li2eyLc

 

the algorithm is different. its meant to emulate a lavry gold. sounds better than ash and ash ultra honestly
but gold on gold clip is a soft compressor and alchemy softens harmonics in the mids and highs.so all in all it should sound better.
all 3 work as does standard clip
I use all 3 but for the last year gold clip lives on the mixbus and often my drum bus for an its mix. hybrid my bettermaker limiter with the clipper engaged stays on mixes

 

wow what a combo u have! ... i forgot i have Standardclip and didnt mention it... have to try tomorrow!
u say standarclip its like these 3 clippers? sorry i dont understan that part.

 

all 3 work well, as does standard clip... thats all I was saying.
knock is actually the weakest of them sound wise but on kicks or snares I like it... but it could never go on my mixbus... just doesn't work for me
other mentions:
IK classic clipper
BX clipper
Newfangled Saturate
Acoustica ash/ash ultra
Submission Flatline/flatline 2
Izotope Neutron 5 clipper

all of them are great clippers, all have a unique tone/texture

 

Standard Clip if you want something to click on things. ) ClipOnly2 by airwindows if you want load the plugin and forget.

 

If you want more transparent, and easy to avoid overshoot go with StandardClip. More flexibility, Kclip3, more color Orange Clip or GoldClip, both from Schwaabe. Cleaner and often a bit louder results, Saturate. Black Salt is probably the most simple of all. Standard Clip after that, it has an assistant mode that listens to the loudest part of your track and tells you exactly what dB you can gain the channel into the clipper. It's probably the best one to learn with.

 

nice, now i got u.
yea i love Newfangled Saturate but too high on cpu, recently saw GoldClip better CPU handling so im keeping it

 

wowow what? i need more detail about airwindows clipper... every time i read somethign about airwindows its good. but never tried it with considered time to judge them.

 

yea standarclip was the only one i bought time ago... and with goldclip have to installed again to make a good decision so, with this resume i have a very good base to pick my final clipper! thanks for this resume!

 

I've never noticed any delay into Kclip3, and that could just be Logic autocorrecting the latency. The real reason why I probably have never noticed it otherwise is because of the way I use clippers. I use them as print-through processing, only when I am bouncing a sample in place, or rendering, or freezing a stem. When I clip something, I'm almost always just shaving a dB or two. I add -clipped to that audio files filename. That way any clipper is not hogging cpu resources to process anything in realtime. If Saturate is too cpu-heavy for you, this is a perfect example. It would mean the difference only in rendering time. That's why quite a few of them have otherwise ridiculous oversampling values available.