Slate Digital Releases Bus Clipper

Bus Clipper is a new plugin from Slate Digital that they say shaves transient peaks and pushes perceived loudness in a single tool. Here's more details direct from the company...

Louder mixes. Zero guesswork.
A two-stage clipping plugin built for the mastering chain. Shave transient peaks to reclaim headroom, then push loudness with wave-shaping. More level, less compromise.

Shave the Peaks...

The Clipper stage works sample-by-sample. If the signal is too high, it gets turned down instantly while everything else passes through untouched. No attack knob, no release, no lookahead.

Three clipping modes, each customizable with the Shape/Harmonics knob, let you move between hard clipping, gentle saturation, and precision harmonic generation.

... Then Push the Rest Forward

The Booster stage uses waveshaping to increase perceived loudness without raising the peak level. Quieter parts of the signal get lifted while louder parts stay put. The master sounds louder and more present without the intermodulation artifacts that come from time-based limiting.

Featuring three booster modes (Mellow, Standard, and Aggressive) with a Gain knob and real-time transfer function display, you can see the exact curve you're applying.

Make Your CPU Work Smarter, Not Harder

Clipping generates supersonic harmonics that fold back into the audible range as artifacts if they're not filtered out. Some clippers need 256x oversampling to handle this. Bus Clipper's alias-reduction algorithm generates fewer of those harmonics in the first place, so 16x gets you the same quality at a fraction of the CPU cost.

Pick your rate (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x), choose linear-phase or minimum-phase downsampling filtering, and the True Peak Limiter at the end of the plugin can catch any remaining overshoots.

Pricing and Availability:

On offer at $49 (Regular price: $99)

More information:

• Bus Clipper

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