Metering plug-ins are an essential mastering tool. Simple, by using mastering plug-ins that can help us polish the tone of our mixes along with well-sorted metering plug-ins to get our music set for streaming standards. Platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music are considered the norm for listening to music. With this evolution of the Music Industry we see a multitude of different platforms, codecs, deliverables, and loudness standards that are part of our daily mixing and mastering workflows, but how do we go about mixing and mastering for all these new standards whilst maintaining full control over our work and the effects of the various codecs? Music is consumed very differently these days compared to ten years ago. Instead, let's agree that there are arguments for and against mastering your own material. Over the last few years, more and more plug-ins have emerged that promise great mastering capabilities making "self-mastering" easier than ever before while also providing tools that help us to deliver music to a range of modern-day loudness specs. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, this article isn't going to open that can of worms. In this case, increasing the oversampling value is helpful if you’re hearing high frequency aliasing! Be warned that high oversampling values such as 16 or 32 times can be very heavy on the CPU.These days many Music Producers and Recording Artists "self-master" their music. Alternatively you can boost the input gain into the clipper for the same effect. The plugin can be also used as a more traditional saturation/distortion plugin by setting a ‘softer’ wave shape, such as algebraic or arctangent – simply lower the ceiling level to provide more saturation to the signal – just remember to boost the output afterwards. It is recommended that the hardclip, quantic or cubic shape be used for mastering, as these introduce no or minimal saturation. This plugin is a great way to conveniently transparently boost volume without clipping your daw, whether it be an individual stem or sound effect, or an entire track that you made. Oversampling is also available to remove high frequency aliasing when oversampling is on this does introduce peaks slightly over the ceiling level however, so if you intend to use this plugin with oversampling as the final plugin on the master chain, ensure the ceiling level is set appropriately and/or the post-oversampling clip setting is set. You can then intuitively set the ceiling level using the slider that perfectly matches the level meter next to it. The plugin allows you to choose between a range of wave shapes or ‘sigmoid functions’, from the most transparent but harshest hard clip, to the ‘softest’ but most saturated arctangent shape.
Free Clip is an intuitive multi algorithm soft clipper / wave shaper plugin.
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