Audiogarden Clipper
Exactly the clipper a trap sound calls for, and thanks to oversampling up to 8× a mastering tool as well.
Free
Free, no activation.
WHAT IT DOES
Audiogarden Clipper shaves peaks off gently and predictably, so a mix or a drum bus gets louder without falling apart. With oversampling up to 8× it holds up in mastering too, and the display shows what it did to your signal over the last four seconds. Free, no activation.
- Soft clipping with Threshold and Post, on a live transfer curve
- Quality 1×, 2×, 4× or 8× oversampling
- History of the last four seconds: input, output and what was clipped
- Low Cut keeps the bass out of the clipper, with Listen
- Short-term and integrated loudness, Auto Gain
- Ceiling with true peak, and Monomaker
- Delta: hear only what the clipper removes
- In, Out, Mix and Width, factory presets
DISPLAY
See what the clipping does
On the left, the transfer curve shows where Threshold starts to bend the signal and how far Post lets it go. On the right, the history runs through the last four seconds: input, output and, in orange, exactly what was clipped. The meters beside it show input, gain reduction and output.
LOW CUT
Keep the bass out of the clipper
Low Cut sends everything below the chosen frequency around the clipper untouched and adds it back afterwards, so the low end stays round while the peaks above it get shaved.
- Transparent, Steep 24 or Linear phase
- Slope 6, 12 or 24 dB/oct for Transparent
- Listen: hear only the bass that goes around the clipper
LOUDNESS AND CEILING
Louder, not just bigger numbers
Short-term and integrated loudness sit right under the display. Auto Gain matches the output to the input loudness, so you judge the sound and not the volume. A ceiling with true peak keeps the output under the limit, and Monomaker folds the low end to mono.
SPECS
What is inside
| Window | 860 × 510 points, scalable 70–200 %, Clean or Analog look |
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| Formats | VST3 and AU, macOS and Windows |
| Presets | factory presets in the menu on the plugin panel |
| Price | free, no activation |