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Getting that LOUD and proud mix that jumps out of the speakers but isn't completely flat and squashed to death?
It's not easy and takes years of ear training, a great monitoring system, and lot's of love...
But Soft clipping and hard clipping plugins make that extra .5 dB of loudness a lot easier to squeeze out of your song. Try it out!
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[@michaelkillebrew3114]

After hearing the quality of a song i a music video of guy, i think he knows what he's doing. I was impressed by the sound. Very good

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Cheers! Here to help

[@brianolson_music]

Chew it up before master, gain staging, oversampling settings. Very Cool video. Great information. Dope sounding track. Wow

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Yessir!

[@stefan7665]

It is actually a nice way to get extra loudness without the limiter peak limiting at the end. The clipper also forms some nice transients

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Right?! When it works, it really makes the record more "in your face" and full.

[@homermao]

Amazing... Do you put bass in drum bus or instrument bus ?

[@kevinwhitakermusic3960]

Wow 😮 that’s dope

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Oh yes sir... But be careful!

[@gravitykp7701]

thank you 🖤

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Cheers! Thanks for stopping by

[@dodo13500]

I like half price. Here we gooooo! You da man Brad.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Oh yea!! Can’t beat that! 🤝

[@iamkeiju6756]

make sure ur mix is VIBIN' n LOUD before u clip. Clip is BEST used when it's in the right place in the chain🥰❤️🙏🏼

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Yep!

[@Darksagan]

Boss!

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Always trying to help

[@MadeInChicago.]

Super Dope info! The answer to the question is to make sure all the oversample rates are the same on every soft/hard clip plug-in that you’re using in every bus so that your shit don’t start tweekin. Lol

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

BAM!!

[@prolifik302]

Ur a legend

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

You are!!

[@Firetracks]

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[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Yo! Good to see you over here bro! Welcome!

[@Firetracks]

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[@kevinwhitakermusic3960]

Make sure your sample rate is at its highest processing speed based off your computer and make sure it’s set for all of them to get the best dynamics of your mix

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

More about “oversampling”…. It doesn’t have to do with your sample rate

[@JAre-jr8cw]

Match all over sample rates on busses or else you may have timing and other issues and bounce offline aswell! Thanks for these gem videos. Waiting for you to sign me(;

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Yee!! Killed it.

[@pablonava7367]

So am I to understand that it pre-suppresses it before it even hits the master. Im guessing that's a great way to get loudness while taking care of the peaks so that the limiter doesn't get overwhelm. We therefore save headroom for all the components and process, the master bus won't be working as hard. This works best when you apply clipping at the end of all your sends. See, the thing is that all the standard clipping busses are gonna end up in the master bus anyway right. So the thing is not to have different oversampling as it may cause timing issues. I don't know man but thanks you for the valuable information dude!

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Crushed it!! I see you paying attention and soaking up game!

[@pablonava7367]

@@RadiumRecordsHollywood You know it brotha! All thanks to you.

[@anualphonse]

The most important thing before bouncing/mastering is to 1. make sure the clipper is after the limiter and 2. all the sample rates in the clipper are the same so there’s no timing issues. It may also help to print and then bounce it. Thoughts?

[@dethklokdude27]

You must match your oversampling rates on each instance of your clipper plugin on your auxes, if not, phase correlation will be off and delay compensation will be overworked.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

BAM!! Nailed it!

[@dethklokdude27]

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[@anointedboyz4638]

Bouncing With a hard clipper,hard clipping is literally volume.soft clipping is saturation and volume..when you want just loudness,I'd recommend hard clipping..to answer your question,it depends on the song and the vibe of it..

[@8Mirrors]

wut lol

[@Evan-ps4jf]

Make sure mix is hitting hard as possible before it gets to master buss “cheat code”; “Biggest tip” make sure you use oversampling and they are all the same rate, do it on all limiters, and BOUNCE offline

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

He hit em all!

[@Dewittian]

Hey what's the difference between soft clipping and using a limiter?

[@glyph6757]

When the clippers turn on at 3'27" the music gets noticeably duller, and many interesting dynamic elements disappear.

[@smonomono4194]

I clicked for the stache. Stayed for the info.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Welcome

[@Evan-ps4jf]

Answer: Make sure you understand dynamic range, and knowing where to leave the head room, before the instruments hit the limiters.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Love it! You actually pay attention.

*70's mix engineers leave the chat*

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

LMAO!! That's some real talk... Though they pushed those SSL's/ Neve's and tape machines to clipping ALL THE TIME. So it's not really that different, just different recording mediums...

@@RadiumRecordsHollywood Yeah, but recently I've listened to the man itself Alan Parsons, and he said he and other known producers of the era pretty much hated/still hate that pushing to the limit for loudness thing, it runs dynamics of the music.

[@ash19981]

Hey man wondering if you can help with this, I am using t racks classic clipper, when I use clipping in my mix buss channel do I need to gain match as well? Or do I just leave it as that?

[@johndoe_1984]

No you want to have it louder after the clipper

[@gailgamer]

To be honest, i like the non clipped version better, but i deffenetly hear that the clip version is also so good, and cool way to get loudness, but yeah, i still vibin better without the cliper

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

I’m glad you’re being honest with yourself. 👍🏼

[@mack_johnsonn]

just a question for you, i thought you clipped the signal by bringing the left clip slider down. but here you’re just bringing the gain up or just slightly saturating. can you explain that i’m curious?

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Great question! You are correct that if you bring down the "clip" slider, you are telling it to "hard clip" at that setting... Ie., hard clip at -1.0, for the most part, I am Soft Clipping on these busses... BUT... When you push the "Gain" slider up, you are bringing the input signal in higher and the "clip" is set at 0, so it's pretty much the same as bringing the slider down to hard clip, instead I'm telling it to hard clip at 0 to make sure it's as loud as possible, just tickling off some tops and adding a very small amount of harmonics. Make sense?

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Think about it as driving the input gain into the "clip barrier" a lot like driving input into a brick wall limiter... Looking to bring up lower level information, but "hard clip" any overs.

[@mack_johnsonn]

@@RadiumRecordsHollywood ohhh thank you for the explanation!

[@lidooproduction]

I can't find the song. Is it published?

[@MrMoongazr]

Match oversampling rates across each instance of the plugin

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

BAM!

[@Brutuscomedy]

How do plugins compare to clipping quality AD converters?

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

They're getting so good man... I'd say it's damn near the same and most top engineers are starting to notice that.

[@Brutuscomedy]

@@RadiumRecordsHollywood Good to know. I've been thinking about sending my digital mixes out of the box, through an ART VCA, tape machine, and back through my old Apogee Rosetta. It has "soft clip" and I've always wanted to try it on a mix. Guess I'll just have to experiment a bit in the hybrid domain

[@xplizitrecords]

Make sure all sample rate is the same value and go as high as your computer can handle.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Kinda… Haha! Almost.

[@officialjrduncanpage]

Is this giveaway still going on?

[@croay]

If you're patient enough you can get Classic Clipper for free as a giveaway. Got mine for free and it sounds amazing! One thing that people often overlook when it comes to clipping is WHAT should one clip, what source material should one clip to get some benefit from clippers... It's important to keep in mind that clipping introduces heavy distortion (it's a compromise) to the audio signal, and that's an important fact that leads me to my second point: the type of music one is doing. Electronic, Pop and even Rock music often benefit from clippers without much collateral. Bits of low level noise here and there are negligible in a dubstep production but you don't usually want them on a folk/classical/jazz, etc production. Kclip 3 is a cool clipper that comes with a delta solo feature that makes it quite easy to keep track of how much distortion ones is introducing with it. This is the most important when it comes to this whole discussion regarding clippers (at least to me). But going more technical and answering your question: to match OS rates across all plugin instances is also incredibly important.

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

GREAT! And you're absolutely right... I've never hard clipped an orchestral recording that needed a ton of dynamics! Haha... But that is part of the art, NO RULES! They hard clip and soft clip orchestral hits all the time in trailers and tv promos!

[@kevinwhitakermusic3960]

Let’s go !!!! Clip that shit

[@RadiumRecordsHollywood]

Clippers baby!

[@ash19981]

Hey man wondering if you can help with this, I am using t racks classic clipper, when I use clipping in my mix buss channel do I need to gain match as well? Or do I just leave it as that?

[@mikeamoz]

gain match