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.
You get a free license for promoting the plugin. Essentially a sort of street team / guerilla marketing. I think its cool. Win/Win, dev gets eyes on the plugin, promoter gets a license. For what its worth, I wouldn't have created this if it was a shit plugin. It really is awesome for sound design. I'll post some examples later this afternoon.
it's really not much different than any other youtube video review or product placement in some MWTM video "tutorial". I demo'd it a few days ago and it's not a terrible clipper but I get the feeling of it being an "abstraction plugin", like many of the other ones from sorta new devs and a lot of people keep calling AI coding "generated". Injecting white noise is no new thing, it's what dither down functions have been doing forever, just at a lower gain. Some others lately that strike me the same way are from Audioloom.com, ifeature, United Plugins, etc. People have even suggested it about the AIR Music plugins. At least there is a demo.
True, in the end it's all about psychoacoustics, whether we hear the noise as such or as a component of (welcome) distortion. Need to check it out.
demos are whatever, but the trend of people making a plugin but not posting sample sounds/videos is bullshit
I had not noticed that trend, but I guess I understand it. They probably think we don't trust those either, and they would be right. I won't buy anything I can't test myself.
Any Amway-esque marketingis a red flag (for those who haven't been to the site, see image,) but I'm already suspect when a developer's first plugin is on the easier end of coding, especially now in 2026, and I've read and been told that clippers are one of, if not the easiest audio tool to code. You can chalk up creating basic first-plugins to being new to coding, but it can also be an over-priced cash-grab, like BSA and their $100 clipper (now mercifully $60, roughly the price of OVC-128.) They probably vybe-coded "clipper with dither." Maybe mildly disparaging to UP, but it's only just outside that circle. I'd easily throw Audioloom in with WA Productions tho. And whatever happened to Soundspot... anybody? They were down to $5 at Plugin Boutique and then they disappeared. Yeeeeeah...
100% my opinion! I want to check it out on the homepage. If I don't like the sound there, I don't have to bother. Messing my system with installing and uninstalling stuff is annoying. Going over the VM takes time. In the end I don't check it out at all. If I had heard some demo I really dig, I would have.
