types of clipping

[nu.id]

for clipping my 2bus, I previously only used maximus for that

when I started using some 3rd party clippers, I was surprised to find that some have a different behavior. While the clipping in maximus or fruity limiter essentially chops the peaks off totally flat at the ceiling, a lot of the other clippers I have tried actually have overshoots and preserve some kind of dynamics, rather than chopping the waveform completely flat at the ceiling. This necessitates some sort of processing after to keep everything under the intended ceiling.

Of the ones I have tried, when set to completely hard clipping:

Maximus/Fruity limiter - chops completely flat
TDR limiter 6 GE - has overshoots/keeps some dynamics
T-racks classic clipper - chops completely flat
Kazrog K-clip - has overshoots/keeps some dynamics (if ceiling is turned off)
-newfangled saturate - chops completely flat

does anyone have further knowledge regarding the differences between these 2 types of clipping? are the ones with overshoot not truly hard clipping, even when set as such?

my best guess at the moment is that the ones that chop completely flat have no oversampling, but hard clipping with oversampling will have those overshoots

[levendis]

i'll preface the following with declaration tha...

[nucleon]

Indeed, without checking deeply, the overshoots...

[nu.id]

levendis wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:37 am i'll ...