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Originally Posted by Jeffsounds
Totally agree with this and your other comments as well. I'm still trying to figure out what a clipper does. I thought clipping was a bad thing.
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It's a waveshaper. Clipping a signal a little will A: be imperceptible to the ear as it happens so fast (you won't hear the resulting distortion) and B: buy you headroom if loudness is a concern. It's much more transparent than limiting. That's why I very often use a soft clipper instead of a limiter in mastering - it will get you a louder, cleaner signal than a limiter gives. In comparison, I think limiting is a bad thing because it almost always does more damage to the sound.