But the goal is not just to trim the top of the transient Mr Phrantom The goal IS the distortion. it's to make it so you hear the transient even when it's not there anymore, it's to make it sound louder than it is by introducing and releasing rapid distortion/noise/whatever And for that goal a compressor won't do the trick
If you try the free MCompressor you will find you can clip more level before audible distortions and then "dial in" distortion by reducing the release speed below 30ms. If you set the release to 0ms the clipping distortion is exactly the same as a clipper (Gold or other).
@@mixphantom0101 To be fair most compressor don't go to 0 release time 😂 That does make me want to test the ones who do to see what it does. I wonder how look-ahead would factor into it distortion-wise
My understanding of how look-ahead works I doubt we'd hear any difference - but will probably try anyway! 😉 The oversampling available on the paid version of the "free" Melda plugs does change it somewhat. The most noticeable is using a small soft knee.
Not justifying a $250 clipping plugin by any means, but it’s designed to be used on a full mix. I wonder if your testing results would be different on a full mix and listening to actual results not just deltas. -on a side note it seems your vocal audio in this video is distorted. Looking forward to more SynthV content!
The video was twice as long when I started and I realized that I was just doing the same thing over and over. The bottom line is that clippers are clippers. If I can reproduce any setting of the Gold Clip, Orange Clip, Standard Clip etc. with a simple waveshaper which nulls within -70 to -90dB then the sound difference with tones or a full mix are negligible - ie. no fairy dust. The Gold Clip caught my attention because so many YTers were trying to convince us that it was making sonic differences that was somehow superior - a simple triple blind test would sort that out - but that wouldn't sell any plugins! 😉 I'm happy to be proven wrong! I am, however, embarrassed by the distortion in my voice over but I had a left over plugin chain in the real time section of my Antelope interface when I recorded and didn't hear it until I edited the video - long after my Gold Clip demo had expired. Lesson learned! Will be back on SynthV shortly!
Thanks Mark... another intersting video. I love these techie deep dives! 👍😎
I use the TRackS Classic Clipper now and again. 😊
But the goal is not just to trim the top of the transient Mr Phrantom
The goal IS the distortion. it's to make it so you hear the transient even when it's not there anymore, it's to make it sound louder than it is by introducing and releasing rapid distortion/noise/whatever
And for that goal a compressor won't do the trick
If you try the free MCompressor you will find you can clip more level before audible distortions and then "dial in" distortion by reducing the release speed below 30ms. If you set the release to 0ms the clipping distortion is exactly the same as a clipper (Gold or other).
@@mixphantom0101 To be fair most compressor don't go to 0 release time 😂
That does make me want to test the ones who do to see what it does. I wonder how look-ahead would factor into it distortion-wise
My understanding of how look-ahead works I doubt we'd hear any difference - but will probably try anyway! 😉 The oversampling available on the paid version of the "free" Melda plugs does change it somewhat. The most noticeable is using a small soft knee.
Not justifying a $250 clipping plugin by any means, but it’s designed to be used on a full mix. I wonder if your testing results would be different on a full mix and listening to actual results not just deltas. -on a side note it seems your vocal audio in this video is distorted. Looking forward to more SynthV content!
The video was twice as long when I started and I realized that I was just doing the same thing over and over. The bottom line is that clippers are clippers. If I can reproduce any setting of the Gold Clip, Orange Clip, Standard Clip etc. with a simple waveshaper which nulls within -70 to -90dB then the sound difference with tones or a full mix are negligible - ie. no fairy dust. The Gold Clip caught my attention because so many YTers were trying to convince us that it was making sonic differences that was somehow superior - a simple triple blind test would sort that out - but that wouldn't sell any plugins! 😉 I'm happy to be proven wrong! I am, however, embarrassed by the distortion in my voice over but I had a left over plugin chain in the real time section of my Antelope interface when I recorded and didn't hear it until I edited the video - long after my Gold Clip demo had expired. Lesson learned! Will be back on SynthV shortly!