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The Bus Clipper Black Friday deal from Slate Digital is 50% off, bringing this two-stage dynamics plugin to $49.50 until Nov 15, 2026.
Bus Clipper is a clipper and booster in one plugin. It was built for the mastering chain, but it also works on a drum bus, a snare track or anywhere you need to tame transients and push level.
The plugin has two stages. Stage 1 is the Clipper, which works sample by sample. If a peak runs over the ceiling, it gets turned down, and everything below the ceiling passes through untouched.
There is no attack knob, no release and no lookahead. Three clipping modes, each adjustable with the Shape/Harmonics knob, cover hard clipping, gentle saturation and precision harmonic generation.
Stage 2 is the Booster. It uses waveshaping to raise perceived loudness without raising the peak level, lifting quieter parts of the signal while louder parts stay put.
The maker says this avoids the intermodulation artifacts that come with time-based limiting. Three booster modes (Mellow, Standard and Aggressive) sit beside a Gain knob and a real-time transfer function display, so you can see the curve you are applying.
When a signal is clipped, it produces content above the hearing range, and unless that content is removed, it can wrap around and show up as audible distortion. The maker says some clippers need 256x oversampling to deal with this.
Bus Clipper's alias-reduction algorithm generates fewer of those harmonics to begin with. Slate Digital says 16x oversampling gives the same quality at a fraction of the CPU load, with lower latency than traditional upsampling approaches.
Slate Digital suggests Infinity EQ 2 for tonal work, FG-X 2 for final limiting and Virtual Tape Machines for analog character. You can also build your own chain around it.
The maker says Bus Clipper helps you use all of the available headroom to reach maximum level.
Yes. The Bus Clipper Black Friday deal takes 50% off Slate Digital's clipper plugin, bringing it to $49.50. The offer ends Nov 15, 2026.
It combines two stages. The Clipper turns down peaks over the ceiling and leaves everything below it untouched. The Booster uses waveshaping to raise perceived loudness without raising the peak level.
No. Its origins are in mastering, where accurate metering and true peak limiting come standard, though the developer claims the results hold up equally well on drum buses, snare tracks, or any spot where you want tighter transients and more loudness.
It shows Integrated Loudness (LUFS-I), Short-Term Loudness (LUFS-S) and True Peak in real time. A gain-reduction style meter, Delta Listen and Constant Gain Monitoring (CGM) are also included.
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