Boz Little Clipper Free Download

• Hard/Soft Clipping
• Intuitive Input Gain and Ceiling controls
• Mix knob for blending your dry sound back in
• Multiple stereo configurations for clipping stereo buses
• Hard/Soft Clipping
• Intuitive Input Gain and Ceiling controls
• Mix knob for blending your dry sound back in
• Multiple stereo configurations for clipping stereo buses

We’ve all been there: You’ve got your mix sounding the way you want; drums are punchy and prominent, you snare has power and punch, but then you look at the track overload meters in the red and think you need to pull levels down to prevent all the clipping (which you didn’t hear). So you start pulling down the faders and all of sudden, your snare becomes a snore, your entire mix, once awake and exciting, is now a snooze fest. You’ve just experienced the benefits of clipping.

Clipping is the analog of overdriven tube distortion and tape saturation (see what we did there?), both meant to be avoided, but engineers with golden ears discovered that distortion, albeit counter-intuitively, provided a means of making instruments and vocals stand out in a mix with clarity. The distortion itself wasn’t heard unless you pushed it too hard. Currently, there is no shortage of analog distortion generators in both hardware and modeling software.

As we said, clipping is the analogous form of distortion in digital systems. Analog distortion mostly took the form of gentle clipping and saturation, which softened transients and added rich harmonics. Digital clipping does the same thing, but with a narrower window between pleasing and unusable. It’s easy to overdo digital clipping, but when judiciously applied, it can make mixing easier.

Boz Little Clipper Free Download