01) Introducing GOLD CLIP PACK: More Than a Clipper
GOLD CLIP PACK is much more than just another clipper.
Gold Clip Pack is a family of plugins designed to bring loudness, saturation, and energy to your mixes and masters. It includes both a Mastering Clipper and a Track Clipper, powered by the same advanced internal technology. With unique features like Boxtone, the digital tape-style dynamic processor Alchemy, a parallel mixer, and anti-overshoot oversampling, these tools help you craft mixes and masters with loudness and impact.
It’s a simple tool, but underneath lies complexity. Yes, it’s a clipper, but it’s so much more than that. Once you fully understand Gold Clip, you’ll unlock a wide palette of sounds—from aggressive and dirty to clean and pristine. Over the next few weeks, I’ll send you a few email tutorials and videos to help you unlock the power of Gold Clip.
I promise that if you take a few minutes to read or watch each one, it will vastly improve the results you get from this unique tool.
What does Gold Clip do?
Gold Clip is a clipper, loudness saturator, mid-to-high frequency peak processor, distortion device, box tone generator, clip clock, and true parallel mixer.
It can serve as a mastering processor, a unique dynamic effect for mixing, or a creative tool for production. Gold Clip can be clean and reserved or loud, aggressive, and distorted.
Gold Clip includes two loudness saturation algorithms, both called Gold, as well as a unique mid-to-high frequency peak processor called Alchemy. Both processors are integrated into the clipping algorithm to deliver a maximally smooth and loud master.
The Three Main Functions
The Clipper is inspired by the overloading effects of two famous mastering converters. We named them Modern and Classic. There is also a clean clipper that we cooked up for you called Hard. These three clippers are like no other digital clippers out there. Try pushing your mixes into them and see how smooth and natural they sound. And the clipper isn't even the best part, but it is a necessary step to make Gold processing possible.
Gold processing uses a clever loudness technique that enhances quiet sounds in your mix, without altering the peaks. I like to call it compression without consequence, but in reality, it is compression without attack and release. Use the input trim to boost your mix up to the clipper's ceiling, add some Gold, and experience the power of this incomparable dynamic effect.
Alchemy is a peak processor that operates in the mid to high frequencies, reducing harshness and unwanted clipping effects. As the signal reaches the clip point, Alchemy gently softens the mid to high frequencies. I like to think of it as digital tape because it can take the ugly bite out of a mix when things get loud.
Check out this short Gold Clip video on YouTube.
Let me know what you think. Hit reply or tag @SchwabeDigital in an instagram story and show us how you are using Gold Clip. We'll repost.
In the next blog, I'll show you a simple and effective way to get the most out of Gold Clip Pack.
Be well,
Ryan Schwabe
Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum mixing & mastering engineer
Founder of Schwabe Digital
p.s. If you REALLY want to go deeper, click here to read the full Gold Clip Pack manual.
