dont know why its boring xd but okay. standardclip its awsm, but goldclip has something different for sure.

 

most likely schwabe strike.

 

Bc it’s being fixed by flare. There’s an issue with bouncing
I’m not a person that bounces bc I mostly work hybrid but even itb I’d rather print vs bounce no matter what daw

 

on tracker it was deleted by site operator, so I would say DMCA is most likely. That only happens when someone catches a real email.

 

If people are now talking about any and every clipper under the sun, I might as well throw two more at you.

* Fuse Audio Labs OCELOT Clipper
* Tokyo Dawn Labs TDR Limiter 6 GE

 

OP seems to want a go-to, daily driver, might as well consider all of them. Prices could help...

StandardCLIP — $25
KClip 3 — $39.99
Gold Clip — $249
Orange Clip — $89
Black Salt Clipper — $79
Knock — $49, sometimes free
Saturate — $49
Flatline 2 — $69
Softube Clipper — $79
bx_clipper — $79
Big Clipper 2 — $59
ASH — $199
V-Clip — $29
Kilohearts Clipper — Free
Free Clip — Free
GClip — Free
Ocelot Clipper — $69
Limiter6 — Free

 

Peakeater (based on Free Clip by Venn Audio):

https://github.com/vvvar/PeakEater/releases

 

You can definitely use a free clipper if you're doing hard clipping. Pure hard clipping (without any smoothing or other shenanigans) sounds pretty much the same across any clipper, you can add oversampling which might change things a little bit. But actually oversampling in clipper is funny, especially when doing hard clipping. If you're doing just a little bit of 1-2db clipping on peaks just before limiting I actually prefer to have oversampling off. I find oversampling can change the sound and the duration clipper Is working is very short anyway so any aliasing noise is likely to be masked, or can even add some excitement to the very short transient. That said I still use Standardclip for hard clipping, oversampling off. I use hard clipping always before limiter when mastering, soft clipping for different purposes.

 

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Does anyone have experience with this clipper?

https://lusidmusicuk.com/products/buzzcut-the-erosion-clipper

 

Regarding OS, I understand, but I don't think it's always a problem. Usually aliasing is no matter of concern if you aren't driving hard the processor.
Regarding gain staging, I fully agree. That stopped me from using many of his plugins but luckily enough Consolidated exists now (so I have pre and post gain in the same plugin).

 

I have personally always been extremely satisfied with the simplicity of Standard Clip, and I loved discovering and using ASH behind it.

I quickly bought it for its different algorithms and color possibilities. Schwabe with Gold and Orange look so good, but I haven't had the opportunity to try them yet, maybe one of these days!

I recently installed AO's clipper but haven't tested it yet. I think it's more focused on color, tone, orientation, and saturation than clarity, given its penchant for analog emulation and idealization.

I'll come back and give you my opinion once I've tested it.

TDR also has a clipper that really crunches. Limitless, in my opinion, is also a great option for achieving precise levels of loudness and clarity without too much crunch.

KClip is the one that has convinced me the least so far in my usage scenarios, probably due to an oversampling or aliasing chain issue that I don't like. Anyway, IK Multimedia Clipper is also very good but rather simple—a good tool without being complicated.

For a while, I used Genome from Two Audio Engineering extensively with certain NAM profiles for emulating AD/DA audio converter capture (Burl, Laivry, Bettermaker, etc.) to clip the drum bus or master bus. But with time and hindsight, I found that these captures tended to distort the sound in ways that weren't always pleasant. Sometimes it was incredibly interesting, and sometimes completely counterproductive. I still occasionally use Laivry's NAM and Dangerous Converter, but I tend to prefer ASH for this. Let's hope a day for a new wave of AA magic witch someday and try Dangerous Clipper and daisy as plugin directly.

I also had a lot of fun creating code based on TDR research using ReaJS, Reaper's tool, which in my opinion offers a truly fascinating range of possibilities. You lose all interface design capabilities to focus solely on the sound, and frankly, it's sometimes mind-blowing!

I was inspired by his Crane Song Phoenix emulation, based on saturation and saturation possibilities, retaining its frequency curve and dB meter, and added a Pentode On/Off and Triode On/Off function to trying create my own ITB Hedd Quantum.

The result was that the two even and odd harmonic modes in my first attempts tended to cancel each other out depending on the saturation profiles of the selected tape (Opal, Iridescent, Luminescent).

Afterwards, I succeeded by changing the nature of the code and the audio routing, which now had to pass separately from the tape, like a selector, but in parallel and not in series.

In short, I achieved something interesting, but it's still very far from what the original analog Hedd Quantum can offer, if only because of its multiple possible frequencies and its gain staging, which has nothing to do with that of an ITB DAW, once again. Clippers are a fantastic world, and converters even more so. It's almost like a Pokémon world: catch them all and try them all to find your exact preferences and tastes!

This world has even made me want to learn more about audio hardware engineering. It's incredibly fascinating, but also in great danger in the current climate, where resources are dwindling and, above all, their sourcing is becoming increasingly ethically problematic.