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!

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

Clipper Clip-seq

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.

May 29, 2021 GClip has become a part of my every day arsenal. I highly recommend for anyone looking for a straightforward, easy-to-use clipper. The installation was painless and only took a few minutes. I cannot recommend this product enough if you are looking for a bargain transparent clipper for your every day. 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.

Clipper (gclip App

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