Did you know REAPER includes over 250 audio effects? JS Effect Spotlight is a series of articles highlighting the often overlooked JS effects included with REAPER.
The Soft_Clipper effect written by Shwa is another hidden gem in the JS effects bundle and one I use a lot in mixing rock music.
A soft clipper takes the loudest peaks and rounds them off. Often this is a more effective way of increasing loudness than a brickwall limiter, it doesn’t pump!
The free Gclip can give a certain crunch, which also can be great of you want some distortion and crunch to your mix. Yesterday I chose Eventide on the Drumbus (where i group all drums and the 808 and process em together with slightly compression and some Softclipping) and T-Racks on the Masterbus, because I liked what T-Racks clipper did to.
Clipper (gclip App
- The input signal is 1 kHz sin wave and the processing is -6 dB hard clip. Read more of this post Clipper, VST plugins clipper, GClip, sin wave, spring, THD.
- A tool to identify CLIP-seq peaks. Contribute to YeoLab/clipper development by creating an account on GitHub.
- T-racks clipper vs gclip. Discussion in 'Backline' started by joeymusicguy, Feb 26, 2010. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next joeymusicguy Member. Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Messages: 3,744.
Clipper Clip Seq
Pushing it hard can cause distortion but when clipping off a couple dB either on a master or individual tracks it can be very transparent.
The JS soft_clipper has only two controls:
Boost increases the input up to 9dB
Output brickwall is the ceiling or absolute max output level which can be set from -3 and +1 dBFS
You can use this on your master bus either before or in place of a brickwall limiter. I find it very useful on kick and snare tracks where I need them to be loud but not actually take up headroom.
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