MUST-USE Soft Clipping Techniques For LOUDER Mixes ✅

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Wondering about how to use a soft clipper in a mix?

Toronto mixing engineer 5PiECE demonstrates how while exploring 5 soft clipping techniques you can use to get louder, fuller mixes. This is perfect for anyone wondering how to get louder mixes in general.

Watch and learn as he applies soft clipping to kick drums, snares, basses, drum groups and even the final master of his track.

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📖 VIDEO CHAPTERS 📖
0:00 Overview
0:06 What is a Clipper?
0:37 Soft Clipping vs. Hard Clipping
0:47 Why Use a Clipper?
1:15 The Promise of This Video
1:30 DistroKid
2:32 What Sounds Should I Apply a Clipper To?
3:27 Technique 1
7:06 Technique 2
10:43 Technique 3
13:10 Technique 4
18:00 Technique 5
24:45 The Difference Between a Clipper & Limiter

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[johnnykempt]

Great stuff. Perceived loudness and headroom. Keyboard is in the perfect position :)

[EricTuba-tv]

Great tutorial ❤. Well explained . I tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks bro

[MendingSilence]

I use fl studio so it n my mastering chain I would just use fruity soft clipper and on the fruity limiter just use the saturation knob ?

[TraxtasyMedia]

If I use drums via MIDI, I assure myself that, everything is balanced in dynamics, by using this simple method: the higher an instrument is inside the frequency spectrum, the lower the velocity should be.
This also applies for piano pieces.
So you're already able to safe tons of headroom before even start mixing

[TRVladdy]

Dude, you said that you like softclipping more, yet you used standard clip without the soft clip saturator. In other words, you where hardclipping. (just to confirm, I did a quick null test and the soft clip classic, pro and hardclip options null perfectly unless you use the slider)

[mlady]

I been looking for this exact type of tutorial for months, excellent job explaining. thanks

[Hiveive]

Do you gain stage after you clip 1 or 2 dbs? Or do you leave it be? Also, on windows ( I know you're on mac), you can hit the shift key to override standard clips 2 increment thing and fine tune it to the number you want, just an fyi.

[DavidEHarrisMusic]

In standard clip Input section what do I set the gain and clip levels for? After that in chain I have Ozone 9 with threshold of -6Db and ceiling of -3Db.

[ash]

Hey man thanks for this amazing video, 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

[Godofpeace]

But distrokid close my friend youtube comment session why?

[IcemanTheDj]

6:50 TIP for you: Inside the daw's mixer there is no cliping!!! Only the master output is important not to clip (when you export in 16 or 24 bit) !