Soft Clipping in Reason

Soft Clip

Maybe you don’t know this but in Reason you can use the Soft Clip effect without using the Limiter of the MClass Maximizer. Just switch off the Limiter button and the whole device now works as a soft clipping device. You can overdrive the signal but the device will never ever go over 0 dB. The Soft Clip Amount parameter goes from sharper sounding clipping types (more high overtones) to a very rounded sounding clipped tone (less high overtones).

Don’t use it on the master, although you perfectly can, but use this per channel. You can fool any Summing Bus Purist with it 😀

Comments

5 responses to “Soft Clipping in Reason”

  1. Indra Avatar

    What do you mean by “Summing Bus Purist”? Is this a reference to some special technique that people use?

    1. Marco Raaphorst Avatar

      You can Google on “Summing Bus”. There’s a lot of discussion about it. Here’s a pro-analog article which might be interesting: http://www.farmelorecording.com/in-the-press/analog-vs-digital-summing/

      1. Indra Avatar

        Thanks. Very interesting topic.

  2. Sebastian Moore Avatar
    Sebastian Moore

    What about the SSL peak mode compressor? Isn’t just (almost?) the same behaviour?

    1. Marco Raaphorst Avatar

      The SSL is just a compressor. Will go over 0 db. It’s not a clipper.

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