"I always hate when you watch a mixing video from someone who is way better at mixing than I am, and they 're like, 'Here's what you do -- this, this, and that. Did you hear that? It's magic!' And I'm like, 'I don't hear any difference, but I'm gonna believe you because you have twenty Grammys.'" This made me both laugh and have more faith in you as a youtuber so I'm gonna check out more of your videos now. Cheers!
Yeah and transients mainly contribute to peak loudness not something like rms or lufs which is a better representation of how humans perceive loudness. So you sacrifice a little transient action for the ability to better mix and glue things together in the mix
Cool video! A couple of minor nitpicks: It's not mono/stereo on the LUFS meter, it's momentary vs short-term loudness. M/S is an unfortunate choice of letters, I agree. Also, in this video you don't really make the clap louder by making it quieter, ie you're not just shaving the waveform, you're making the entire wave louder (by turning up the input knob in phat fx limiter module) and only then shaving off the excess from the top. If you'd really clip the top part of a waveform in, let's say, an audio editor, without scaling up the resulting thing, you would not end up with a higher momentary or short-term/integrated loudness. Though it _would_ get harmonically enriched because, well, squarish stuff needs more sines to manifest. Lastly, I don't own newfangled Saturate, unfortunately, but as it seems to be a very special kind of spectral clipper, it may be not a very good tool for demonstrating how normal clippers work - in theory. In practice on your sine wave the result looked properly clipped, go figure.
I had never heard about clipping until a month ago now I discover a new video about it everyday but yours is certainly the clearest and the most understandable out there. Thanks a lot and thanks for your samples and plugins. I’ve downloaded your Kontakt House Piano like 2 weeks ago and I’ve made a song with it the day after. It’s a tropical/reggae vibe (much appreciated in my country New Caledonia). Your work is very high quality and we can sense your dedication and passion. Since knowing about clipping, I’ve tried it a couple times and I have to say, I do think it does magic 😁 thanks again and bravo. Cheers from a French island in the Pacific 👋🏼
Clipping is basically turning up the parts you want to hear which is the body of the sound and chopping off the part you don't need to hear which is most of the transient.
This was great. Really well explained. I never really grasped the usefulness of clipping before. It's such a great way to shape sounds along with a compressor.
Turning up my LUFS, Shane was my childhood! It’s insane to reflect that when I was a teenager, I was watching Shane on ADSR while a tonne of my friends were watching gaming, variety and meme channels. Good to see ESW still around.
Freeclip is soooo good. Has good oversampling, nice UI and nice variety of modes. I gladly stopped using logic stuff and stopped thinking about buying any fancy $200 clippers.
Volume automation can work if you’re just trying to deal with the transient. If you need a little less pop and click and more body in the mix try the clipper 👍
