Im taking part in a bounty program for this new plugin, called Buzzcut from LuisD Music UK, and am doing so because its a pretty badass plugin. Its calling itself "the erosion clipper", because it injects noise into the signal with the intent to mask the aliasing. Sounds weird, but im a sucker for clipping so I gave the demo a spin, and its WILD. I haven't tried it on the master yet, but its insane for sound design. Slamming it on Neuro basses, breakbeats, 808s or whatever just gives awesome results. It has the option to operate asymmetrically, which adds to the sound design use cases. Knee control, noise tilt and level, auto gain, dc filter, up to 16x oversampling, lufs metering and a dry wet control, as well as a few more options and some cool visuals. Check it out, 14 day demo. https://lusidmusicuk.com/products/buzzcut-the-erosion-clipper
I am yet to find a sound demo that isn't recorded through a phone, so I am unsure on how it is really going to sound. Anyone have a decent high quality demo knocking about? I've not found that things like Standardclip make the audio sound inherently bad, I don't tend to push tracks into -3 Lufs just to retain some sort of dynamic presence, so I'm sure that this is probably better for really loud bass music but for normal applications I think you can get away with a normal clipper for punch etc, especially with the 'SoftClip Pro' mode, which is quite subtle anyway
https://lusidmusicuk.com/pages/buzzcut-bounty-board Instead of "bug hunting", think more along the lines of "pyramid scheme".
You say this, but I've just tried this plugin and it's changed my life. No longer do my over compressed, dynamic free tracks sound bad, they just sound like they've been injected with white noise, which sounds worse on paper but it's not. it's better. I'm not being paid for this message
I mean if it's that good on tracks, it might do wonders in my marriage as well! Joke aside, that white noise thing sounds reasonable to me. A lot of synth patches integrate noise to make the patch louder and give it that ultra rich top end.
I salute BuzzCut, for it liberates me from pedestrian "music", "tones", "signals" and replaces them all with noise. No more EQ, no more mixing, no more mastering. Just white noise. The best white noise. BuzzCut, it inserts the white stuff where it feels good. Tired of only getting brief bursts of noise from your demo plugins? Now you can have that same noise all the time for the low price of $29.99! BuzzCut - pure, unadulterated noise for the serious connoisseur. Hail sonic nihilism. Hail BuzzCut. BuzzCut, the plugin my grindnoise side-project didn't know it needed. Where's my free license, Steve?
They do you're not wrong, but I see this as more of an EDM sort of maybe trance lead thing, white noise helps with super saw leads but if you're going for analogue feel, do you really need more noise in the track? Surely that's going to make it sound more digital, especially if it's added to the entire track and not single layers. Sounds like a bit of a headache to me but, I haven't tried it so it could well do the trick.
