Boz Digital Labs Little Clipper

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Looking for a quick and easy path to clipping/limiting benefits? Let Little Clipper lead the way.

Little Clipper includes just the essential features you need, along with input and threshold metering, to quickly and easily dial the quantity perfect clipping to enhance individual tracks, stereo buses, or complete mixes.

Like the constellations they're named for, Little Clipper is a smaller but no less capable version of the Big Clipper. Both provide a path to the sonic benefits of clipping combined with limiting, but Little Clipper offers a simpler, more straightforward route in applications where you don't require Big Clipper's modeling, blending, and frequency sensitivity controls. Little Clipper combines a variable clipping algorithm with limitation into three simple controls. The two main buttons, Push (clipping) and Pull (limiting), control the clipping strength and amount of clipping. A slider below the Pull button lets you control the shape of the clip from soft to hard, depending on how subtle or aggressive you want the clip to be. Among the buttons are meters that show the input level and the threshold above which clipping occurs. Little Clipper has a toolbar that provides presets, A/B banks for comparison, a blend knob, bypass and, most significantly, a selector that lets you choose between stereo, mid + side, mid only and side only processing. Once you've experienced how easy it is to balance instruments and vocals in a mix with Little Clipper, you'll feel like you're cheating.

Little Clipper - just the facts:

Hard / Soft Clipping
Intuitive input and ceiling gain controls
Mix knob to mix your dry sound back
Multiple stereo settings for stereo bus clipping
Little Clipper - deciphering the code

Wait what? Benefits of Sonic Cropping? Shouldn't we avoid clipping?

We've all been through this: you have your mix sounding the way you want it; drums are strong and prominent, your snare drum has power and power, but then you look at the lane overload gauges in red and think you need to lower the levels to avoid all the clipping (which you didn't hear). So you start pulling down the faders and all of a sudden your snare drum turns into a roar, your entire mix, once awake and exciting, is now a nap party. You've just experienced the benefits of clipping.

Clipping is the analogue of tube distortion with overdrive and tape saturation (see what we've done there?), both meant to be avoided, but engineers with ears of Gold found that distortion, although counterintuitive, provided a means of highlighting instruments and vocals in a mix with clarity. The distortion itself wasn't heard unless you pushed it very hard. Currently, there is no shortage of analog distortion generators in both hardware and modeling software.

As we said, clipping is the analogous form of distortion in digital systems. Analog distortion mainly took the form of smooth clipping and saturation, which smoothed out transients and added rich harmonics. Digital cropping does the same thing, but with a narrower window between pleasing and unusable. It's easy to overdo digital cropping, but when applied judiciously, it can make mixing easier. Elements in a mix fit together more easily, while the dynamics are more controlled and transparent. This is due to the attenuated transients, preventing compressors from drilling holes in your mix (everything under a transient is pushed down by the compressor). Digital clipping can bring cohesion or glue to mix and, when combined with limitation, can help you emerge victorious in the volume wars - the victory is yours.

Little Clipper Controls:

Little Clipper has the essential features needed to quickly and easily dial the perfect amount of clipping. “Push” controls the input gain of the clipping algorithm. The stronger you drive the input, the harder the clipping will be. The “Pull” knob adjusts the cut limit. Anything above the limit is cut off, anything below is untouched. A Hard / Soft slider lets you shape the cutout from soft and smooth to shiny with bite. Between the Push and Pull buttons are gauges that show the input level and threshold. Levels are displayed in blue, while the amount of clipping is shown above the input level in red.

Stereo or Mid / Side

Little Clipper lets you choose the setting for the channel for stereo tracks. Cropping generally sounds much more natural in Mid / Side mode on stereo buses. It even lets you cut just the middle, which is good for mono tracks like bass, kick and snare, or just side channels, giving you even more control over the cut.

Forms:

Like all effects, clipping is bad when you do it randomly. When used with purposeful intent, it is a very powerful tool that can increase apparent dynamics while keeping peaks in check. It's especially powerful on battery power. Just a small cut before a compressor in a box will give your compressor a much more natural sound and predictable results. Or let's say you have a snare drum performance with ghost notes that you'd like to bring in for groove purposes. You could use a multiband expander, but run the risk of emphasizing “singing” tones (tones playing in sympathy with the kit). Little Clipper, on the other hand, will bring out the ghost notes without the pitch song. And speaking of toms, nothing gives you more attitude without breadth than a Little Clipper. Just add a push touch and the tones will appear. Use it in a drum submix in MS mode and hear the drums take on a three-dimensional quality thanks to its ambient-enhancing effects.

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