Clipper plugins compared

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What each one does

• Studio 56

  Say how loud and how clean the peaks should be and Studio 56 builds a clipper for it, an effect with controls and presets made for that job. Studio 56 publishes this site, so this is our editorial choice, not an independent review.

  Free trial, then Pro · Mac, Windows

• Kazrog KClip 3

  Kazrog lists eight clipping modes from smooth and crisp to tape and broken speaker. It splits into up to four bands with mid/side control, oversamples from 2x to 32x and meters loudness in LUFS. Its free KClip Zero keeps one mode with fixed oversampling.

  $69 list, free demo · Mac, Windows, Linux

• SIR Audio Tools StandardCLIP

  SIR Audio Tools offers it for making a mix louder or adding harmonics, with oversampling up to 256 times and a wide set of options.

  $25, demo available · Mac, Windows

• Brainworx bx_clipper

  Sold by Plugin Alliance, it has FET and Diode modes with Ceiling and Knee controls. An Auto Ceiling sets the ceiling for you and an Auto Trim matches levels, with mid/side clipping and up to 32x oversampling.

  $125 list, 14-day trial · Mac, Windows

• Schwabe Digital Gold Clip Pack

  Schwabe Digital pairs a mastering clipper and a track clipper built on the same engine. It lists Modern, Classic and Hard algorithms, a GOLD stage that lifts quiet material and a Clip Clock that marks where a song clips hardest.

  $249, 30-day trial · Mac, Windows

• Newfangled Audio Saturate

  Eventide sells this spectral clipper, which treats frequencies separately so loud lows do not swamp the mids. A Shape control runs from hard clipping to a very smooth curve, and an anti-aliasing mode was added in version 1.10.

  $49, 14-day demo · Mac, Windows

• Venn Audio V-Clip 2

  Venn Audio offers up to ten clipping stages across bands and mid/side, a large choice of clipping curves with a super soft knee among them, separate shaping for each half of the wave and oversampling up to 512 times.

  $60, trial available · Mac, Windows, Linux

• TDR Limiter 6 GE

  Tokyo Dawn Records chains an upward and downward clipper with a compressor, a high-frequency limiter, a peak limiter and a true peak and loudness meter. Its demo has no time limit but blocks automatic recall.

  €60, demo with no time limit · Mac, Windows, Linux

• Venn Audio Free Suite

  Venn Audio’s free set of resizable plugins includes its Free Clip 2 clipper and installs with no registration. The page names the clipper but does not describe its controls.

  Free · Mac, Windows, Linux

• GVST GClip

  GVST’s small clipper has Gain, Clip and Softness knobs, a 2x oversampling switch and a display that draws the wave before and after clipping.

  Free · Mac, Windows, Linux

How entries were picked

Apart from Studio 56, which publishes this site, every entry is a well-known name among clipper plugins that its maker describes on an official page we could check. Each description says only what that page says. The order is not a ranking, and being listed does not mean a maker knows about or endorses this site.

Prices and systems change. Check the official page before you buy or install anything. Every page linked here was opened on November 8, 2026.

Sources for this page

• Studio 56: Studio 56’s official website, the publisher of this reference.
• Kazrog KClip 3: Kazrog KClip 3’s official page, the source of its description here.
• SIR Audio Tools StandardCLIP: SIR Audio Tools StandardCLIP’s official page, the source of its description here.
• Brainworx bx_clipper: Brainworx bx_clipper’s official page, the source of its description here.
• Schwabe Digital Gold Clip Pack: Schwabe Digital Gold Clip Pack’s official page, the source of its description here.
• Newfangled Audio Saturate: Newfangled Audio Saturate’s official page, the source of its description here.
• Venn Audio V-Clip 2: Venn Audio V-Clip 2’s official page, the source of its description here.
• TDR Limiter 6 GE: TDR Limiter 6 GE’s official page, the source of its description here.
• Venn Audio Free Suite: Venn Audio Free Suite’s official page, the source of its description here.
• GVST GClip: GVST GClip’s official page, the source of its description here.

The practical advice here is our own. A maker's description of its product is not a test of how it performs.

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