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Utility Series · Soft Clipper
CLIP
Maximum loudness. Minimum distortion. Total control.
A soft clipper built for producers who want their tracks to hit hard without losing clarity. Three character modes, intuitive controls, and a sound that translates everywhere.
VST3 · AU · AAX
Mac & Windows
Free lifetime updates
Works in every major DAW
FL Studio
Ableton Live
Logic Pro
Pro Tools
Cubase
Studio One
Try it yourself
Drive it. Hear it work.
Pick a loop, press play, then drag the Mix knob up. You'll hear CLIP fade in over the dry signal — exactly like running it on a bus in your DAW.
Utility Series
CLIP
LISTEN UP AUDIO
Soft Clipper
Input
Output
0.0
dB GR
Drive
Colour
Air
Ceiling
Mix
↑
Drag up
LOOP 1 · CLICK PLAY ABOVE TO START
REAL SOFT CLIPPING · RUNNING LIVE IN YOUR BROWSER · POWERED BY WEB AUDIO API
What's Inside
Five controls. One job.
CLIP strips clipping down to the essentials. Every knob, every mode, every parameter exists to help you get loud without sounding broken. No filler, no presets hiding weak algorithms.
Drive
Push input gain into the clipper with surgical precision. From subtle peak control to aggressive saturation — all without the digital harshness of a brick wall.
Colour
Adjust the harmonic character of the saturation. Sweep from clean transparent clipping to warm tube-style harmonics that flatter mid-range and add weight.
Air
High-frequency presence enhancement that compensates for the natural top-end loss in heavy clipping. Keep your mixes open, bright, and detailed.
Ceiling
Set your output limit with sample-accurate precision. Hit any target loudness — streaming standards, mastering bus levels, or whatever your reference demands.
Mix
Parallel processing built in. Blend the clipped signal with your dry input for the loudness boost without crushing dynamics. Perfect for drum bus and master applications.
3 Modes
Clean, Warm, and Hard. Three distinct clipping curves engineered for different use cases — from transparent peak control to aggressive analogue-style colouration.
Clipping, Visualised
Watch your peaks get tamed in real-time.
The transfer curve display shows you exactly how CLIP is shaping your signal. No mystery, no guesswork — see precisely where your peaks hit the ceiling and how the soft-knee curve responds.
- Real-time transfer curve display
- Input/output meters with sample-accurate readout
- dB GR (gain reduction) at a glance
- Resizable UI — fits any workflow
Three Distinct Modes
Pick your character. Print your master.
Every mode is a complete clipping algorithm tuned for a specific job. Clean for transparent peak control. Warm for analogue-style harmonics. Hard for aggressive saturation that adds weight to anything you put through it.
- Clean — surgical, transparent peak limiting
- Warm — analogue-style even harmonics
- Hard — aggressive odd-harmonic colouration
- Switch live without dropouts or glitches
CLEAN
WARM
HARD
Built for Loud
Clipping done properly. Finally.
CLIP isn't another loudness war weapon. It's a surgical tool for the modern producer who needs commercial loudness without sacrificing the dynamics, transients, and clarity that make a mix translate.
- Drum bus, master bus, vocal bus — works everywhere
- Up to 16x oversampling — alias-free even when pushed
- True peak detection — meets streaming standards
- Under 1% CPU on modern systems
INPUT
-3.2
OUTPUT
-1.0
GR
-1.7
The Workflow
From bedroom mix to commercial-loud.
CLIP is designed to be obvious within thirty seconds. No 50-page manual. No PhD in signal processing required.
01
Drop CLIP on your bus
Drum bus, master bus, vocal chain — wherever you need controlled loudness. CLIP works everywhere and pulls under 1% CPU.
02
Pick a mode, push the drive
Clean, Warm, or Hard. Push the drive knob until you're hitting your target loudness. Watch the GR meter to see how hard it's working.
03
Dial in colour and air
Adjust the character with Colour, restore high-end with Air, and set your output Ceiling. Print. Move on with your day.
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