Bus Clipper: Two-Stage Clipper and Loudness Plugin by Slate Digital

The Clipper stage offers three clipping modes, each adjustable with a Shape/Harmonics knob. They cover hard clipping, gentle saturation and precision harmonic generation. The Booster stage has three modes named Mellow, Standard and Aggressive, with a Gain knob and a real-time transfer function display that shows the exact curve being applied.

Clipping creates high-frequency harmonics that can fold back into the audible range as artifacts. Slate Digital says its alias-reduction algorithm produces fewer of these harmonics, so 16x oversampling delivers results that other clippers reach only at 256x. You can choose 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x rates and select linear-phase or minimum-phase downsampling filtering. A True Peak Limiter at the end of the chain catches any remaining overshoots.

Bus Clipper includes Integrated Loudness (LUFS-I), Short-Term Loudness (LUFS-S) and True Peak metering that update in real time. A gain reduction style meter shows clipping activity in the same way a compressor or limiter meter does.

Delta Listen lets you hear only the signal being removed, which helps you check what the clipper is doing. Constant Gain Monitoring (CGM) keeps volume steady when you A/B processing, so loudness changes do not bias your comparison.