Clipping Drums For Louder Mixes

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Жыл бұрын

Use a clipper plugin during mixing or mastering to get your mix loud like the pros. You can also try it out on your drum bus.
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@RustigChill 2 күн бұрын

totally subjective, there’s no right or wrong, except social media has become useless, thanks to this kind of videos

@mixwithjerry 2 күн бұрын

@@RustigChill Hmm.. I wonder why clipping plugins even exist then 🤔

@RustigChill 2 күн бұрын

@@mixwithjerry probably for clipping, no ?

@mixwithjerry 2 күн бұрын

@@RustigChill I mean you said my video about clipping was the reason social media was “useless”. What do you even mean? Clipping is widely used in the music industry for loudness.

@RustigChill 2 күн бұрын

@@mixwithjerry it’s all the same videos over and over again for the last 20+ years, how many versions of each technique do we need ?

@DipsticksOfficial 2 күн бұрын

I went to school for music tech, and this is the first time I've heard this technique, and I'm on cloud nine over this information lol

@Ryanonthemix Жыл бұрын

Clipping also provides a nice saturation to whatever it is you’re using it for. Perfect example of saturating something rather than compressing

@djrapstar 11 ай бұрын

For drum n bass music?

@hearmenow909 11 ай бұрын

Does saturation even really exist in the digital world?

@cobbomusic 11 ай бұрын

@@hearmenow909 yes lol

@Ryanonthemix 10 ай бұрын

Oh yeah for anything really@@djrapstar

@yusumemusic 10 ай бұрын

@@hearmenow909very much

@joakimbertil Жыл бұрын

This is something I had to figure out myself in the past and that no one on YT seems to talk about. I've googled how to stop drums to peak outside the rest of the music for years without good results. Glad someone has finally explained this, even though it's too late for me ;D

@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I was just about to write a very similar post. In 2021, I watched a mixing tutorial that briefly mentioned clipping and put me on the right path, but it still took about two years for me to figure out what this video laid out in 30 seconds or so.

@songwriter3085 Жыл бұрын

same too, always wonder how i can use limiter when i level the kick too high vs rest

@placidesulfurik Жыл бұрын

It's literally just compression, which is the first thing you learn about in audio engineering

@songwriter3085 Жыл бұрын

@@placidesulfurik spend 1 y and a half and now figure out☠️cant understand what i am doing wit mah life

@jensnln Жыл бұрын

@@placidesulfurik clipping is not compression

@mandable 7 ай бұрын

I've been producing 14 years and your video just taught me something I never knew because I overlooked it all those years - HEADROOM. THANK YOU JERRY. seriously. God bless you and your family.

@Monkeyrides123 6 ай бұрын

Cap

@user-ku8lm5ij2p Ай бұрын

how the fuck you producing for 14 god damn years and yet NOBODY showed you this

@xXAjaxXx 15 күн бұрын

I like that his name is Jerry because I get to read comments like this in the voice of George Costanza

@DipsticksOfficial 2 күн бұрын

Yo, saaaaame!! I have a degree, but this is a game changer for me 🔥🔥🔥

@clown134 2 ай бұрын

I've been trying to understand this for like 10 years and it finally clicked thanks to this video

@Bonzvy Жыл бұрын

Apply a little bit less on the kick drum (1-2db) and then bus the kick with the 808 together and clip it 2-3db. That is one of the best advice I got in the past years. Mostly the kick will peak that much when it is played with a bass together. And that is only happing cause the kick and the bass are sharing the same freq range in which they are the loudest

@wxqqum9355 11 ай бұрын

❤

@skrobie 11 ай бұрын

are you not sidechain comping the 808 to make room for the kick, or does the technique you explained work regardless

@Bonzvy 11 ай бұрын

@skrobie I did that all the time and was fine with it as long as the release time was quick enough for not to hear the "pumping". But if you isolate the low end (steep filter on the master up to 120hz) and listen to the low end with and with out the sidechain than you will hear that most of the time without the sidechain the low end is much more powerful. Keep in mind that the polarity of the kick has to be flipped on some 808 notes (depends on the base note of the kick) so you don't get phase cancelation

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

sidechain-compression is quite a friend here too (depending on the bass sound, you don't want to take away attack from a slap bass though)

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

@@Bonzvy holy shit that polarity-switch on the kick might be a game changer for me, why didn't i think of that?

@thehitter2708 7 ай бұрын

Alpha Master compressor plugin is amazing at this. Turn up the clipper on it then the gain knob and it sounds louder amd punchier but actually drops 3db’s in level

@hbonthetrack Жыл бұрын

Clipping ( when done minimally ) is a game changer when it comes to getting loud without making your limiter fart. You’re getting headroom therefore you sound louder but yet stronger.

@caedenlopshire9635 Жыл бұрын

petition to change “limiter fart” to the official terminology.

@hbonthetrack Жыл бұрын

@@caedenlopshire9635 Thank You Thank You

@Jupiter1423 Жыл бұрын

Why would you want to do it minimally? Wouldnt you want push it as far as it would go if it still sounded good? So few people are aware that the elysia alpha master busses clipper can shave 5-15db off a drum buss and rarely ever change the sound of anything.

@hbonthetrack Жыл бұрын

@@Jupiter1423 Transients

@actuallyasriel 11 ай бұрын

this is my first time hearing "limiter fart" and it caught me LOL but yea it seems tru!!

@christhescientist 11 ай бұрын

Perfect explanation, didn’t waste time and got straight to the point, in an easy to understand manner. Brilliant work

@neonsense_edm 8 ай бұрын

I literally told myself yesterday.. I hope I come across a video that explains this exact thing. You seriously just saved me potentially a lot of time trying to figure it out myself , thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@VeganKebabDoRuky 11 ай бұрын

It's visible in the footage, but I want to verbalize for those who don't know here; it is advised to use hard clipping if the intended goal is to bring peaks down without changing the sounds too much. Soft clipping has a more audible distortion, hard clipping tends to be more clear if you don't push it too much.

@BrandonisBlue 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the extra info

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

You deliver at exactly the right tempo for me, that alone earned a sub

@eastendmade 9 ай бұрын

Bro I’ve been producing for years and you just solved my problem

@goofgafproductions6818 10 ай бұрын

Bro I’ve been watching so many videos on this but your explanation is so simple and concise!! You’re a god🙏

@theAcelebrity 11 ай бұрын

Another pro-tip : Emphasize transients before clipping. Yes, it will be cut out by clippers anyway. However, emphasizing the transient before clipping preserves a bit more of the attack and energy of the mix.

@yassinetalbi5884 11 ай бұрын

Secret sauce :)

@ThiagoCP 10 ай бұрын

How do we emphasize transients?

@tundesmart 10 ай бұрын

@@ThiagoCP use a transient shaper or simply use upward compression

@eightsy 8 ай бұрын

Use soft clipper to preserve the transient.

@1lI1l1Il 10 ай бұрын

Giving your Kick/Snare some sweet Tape Saturation is another nice wa, to it.

@C_Corpze 10 күн бұрын

I just like to use Fruity Waveshaper, if you use a half-sine shape you can make things louder without really distorting it. It adds like more frequencies or distorts the sound in a way that makes it sound "fuller" without destroying it.

@Suspended.Solitude 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! I come from a film backgrounds, so I'm used to edit and master for dynamic range. Never occured to me that I have to clip the peaks for things to sound louder overall. It's counter intuitive to me, but it works. Loudness sounds better now.

@mixwithjerry 3 ай бұрын

Yeah clipping kick and snare is essential for me to create a mix that can get loud in mastering.

@dalescott1979 4 ай бұрын

Totally brilliant short video! If it's not clear to some watchers, use hard clip shape (not soft clipping) and watch the mixer track db meter to know the db reduction, ie 6 down to 9 on this video, and that's the 3db reduction and you can use this technique universally. Too many haters on here; I am glad they have God like mixing abilities and don't need this technique but they shouldn't hate on most people that do need it. So many people out there can't control those peaks and think their Compression abilities are lacking when really, they just need to clip a bit before the Compressor. Now... that is going to start another argument... clip before or after.

@nuh-uhbro765 Жыл бұрын

This is an incredible tip

@KurtFender-jy6yr 11 ай бұрын

the first part he mentioned was what exactly i was doing and what i was having issues with. i tried this and works for me. thanks!

@mopik28 11 ай бұрын

Actually an usefull advice, some of my waveforms used to look exactly like this and i somehow couldnt figure out how to deal with it. thanks alot sirr

@mizmusic5436 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for explaining it to the way you did. Very very insightful.

@illslang7798 Жыл бұрын

Bro that singing was beautiful

@theeugenicsprofessor9212 11 ай бұрын

THANK YOU This is the most useful tip ive obtained in several weeks

@malcolmhodnett8874 5 ай бұрын

This was well explained

@yohann44 11 ай бұрын

c'est bon les short comme format pour les tips de mixage ! on respire !

@kaidoChess 7 ай бұрын

Logic does this for me now chief

@JakeAdkinsOfficial 10 ай бұрын

Oh gosh ive been trying to figure this out forever. THANK YOU.

@Dane_Riazer Жыл бұрын

and some saturation helps too, awesome tip love standardclip and crispy clip

@topasmusic 11 ай бұрын

Amazing thanks!! You explained it so well

@JanMichalSzulew 8 ай бұрын

That sounds smart AF. I need to try it ASAP.

@Blue-cf5jd 11 ай бұрын

I really needed this information thank you !!

@ukofficialdel 5 ай бұрын

It’s all in the mix for sure 📝

@Theumpsken Жыл бұрын

So cool to hear an example. Well done.

@DJNobodySpecial 4 ай бұрын

Broo this is absolutely a solid pro-tip

@johna6838 9 ай бұрын

This is GOLD.

@MuteProduction 7 ай бұрын

having an oscilloscope is nice for this. Also before any clipping, consider an arbitrary phase shift to the point with the most loudness, then clip. This way you can clip less but still attain as much or more loudness.

@vgaportauthority9932 11 ай бұрын

Nice, very useful. Thanks

@palmfruit2955 11 ай бұрын

v-clip is honestly the best/only clipper you will ever need in my opinion, even the free version is pretty nice

@VeganKebabDoRuky 11 ай бұрын

Not doubting it's good, I haven't used it personally. I can only say from my experience the best clipper in terms of audio quality I've found is Saturate by Newfangled audio. But if SIR Audio Tools have a free version of StandardCLIP that sounds good then that's awesome.

@xipv9755 6 ай бұрын

Very much needed thank you!

@GhostsInSpace_ 11 ай бұрын

Great tip. Thank you!!

@sludgebucket3042 5 ай бұрын

Yeah this definitely works wonders and I also learned this way too late in life

@jayemakebeats 11 ай бұрын

Gem....good tip! Tape saturation at the stem (bus) level works good to lower dbs without losing punch.

@Deprave0 11 ай бұрын

Im using pro mb to compress the lows and it helps a lot

@vivanmusicmaker 7 ай бұрын

That's perfectly what I needed. Thanks ❤

@niko6248 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq seriously needs a way to save shorts because this man spoke nothing but facts.

@JustinLouthianDrums 7 ай бұрын

Click the 3 dots at the top right and you can save them to a playlist (on mobile, at least) 😊

@DirkArnez 2 ай бұрын

Omg i learnt this trick after thinking and without tutorials! I didn't know it is a thing!

@papemakhtardiop1943 6 ай бұрын

Very useful tips, thank you Man 🙌🏾💯

@dudleygray3088 11 ай бұрын

So I've never really understood compression, and clipping etc. However for snares and kicks I run them through the KiloHearts Tranisent Shaper, using the clip function. This explains why it makes them slap beautifully in the mix ✌️

@Dmik20 10 ай бұрын

What DAW is he using? Ableton?

@chronicallyalive 10 ай бұрын

@@Dmik20 no, that's FL studio

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

underrated plugin you might want to check out is NI Transient Master

@Lyle_Plays 2 ай бұрын

thank you for actually explaining it!

@kryptoniterazor 11 ай бұрын

Nicely presented and practical advice.

@JeanWJoseph Жыл бұрын

solid tip! thank you

@Locsta_Beats 5 ай бұрын

I learned the hard way but this refresher reminds me, I'm on the right tracc

@thelyricallyobsesseduniver3082 5 ай бұрын

That’s helpful thanks!

@thiagoantoine5635 11 ай бұрын

Thats a nice concept

@rome8180 7 ай бұрын

And if you want to get your mix really loud, you apply compression, clipping, and limiting at multiple stages. My snare drum will often be compressed before it goes into a clipper. Then the whole drum bus will have compression, as well as a limiter to catch the very highest peaks. Then the mix bus will have a compressor too. And all that will go into a limiter. So you might see my snare pass through 5-7 stages of dynamic control. Almost every instrument gets similar treatment -- especially vocals, bass and the rest of the drum kit. Guitars might "only" get four stages of dynamic control. The type of dynamic control I use depend on the instrument. A clipper works better on drums than anything else, imo.

@agarengames3101 Жыл бұрын

some of the loudest shit I’ve made was with just a default soft clipper on the master n that’s it. Then crank up the kick and bass until it starts distorting other sounds. Then it hits HARD!!!

@whale_talk 6 ай бұрын

That made so much sense 💯

@robertreid2241 11 ай бұрын

Standard clip is also fantastic for mastering in soft clip pro mode. It adds punch and increases loudness, and is great when used alongside compression and limiting

@Dmik20 10 ай бұрын

Is this Ableton or what DAW is this?

@2gunzofficial593 11 ай бұрын

This is the explanation I needed rn to understand my mixdowns as my drums have been enormously louder and causing this issue

@brianvillage5 11 ай бұрын

A little tape saturation, transparent clipping then some transformer saturation is a great way to bring down the level without losing apparent loudness. It also sort of imparts a pleasant eq curve automatically cutting down on the moves you have to make. Also, low pass everything. It shouldn’t be a question of if, but rather hire much can you get away with. Low sub frequencies eat up sonic real estate taking away headroom, it takes energy to reproduce those frequencies even though you can’t hear them. Bass and kick can go from 40-60 even sometimes 90 hz, mid range instruments like snare, guitar and a lot of keys and synths can go 120-200hz and hi range stuff like hi hats or drum overhead mics can go up to 600 hz sometimes, as always use your ears and do what’s best for the mix at hand. Don’t be afraid to mix with low levels on your individual tracks, run them into a bus and do some general moves like eq compression and saturation in more broad strokes for glue them on your master bus you can get away with doing a lot less to get to the same place. Every time I mix I try to make less moves to get to the same place, working on your ear will lend to greater efficiency during mix sessions.

@rgmsyncmusicstudio 4 ай бұрын

Gracias mi Amigo 👊🏼 Great tip 👍🏼

@OGKayZee 11 ай бұрын

Very insightful! ty my guy!

@2ksoulja 17 күн бұрын

the trick is to get the right amount of clipping. if there are only random crackles in the low frequencies, that’s not good, and you need to crank it up more

@reynaldoleon6118 Жыл бұрын

Great tip

@Y0_ltr 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! After like 15 video about mastering bullshit I finally got a tip that is actually helpful °0°

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

Another trick that can be combined with that to get a bit of percieved percussion loudness is to use an ever so slight side chain compression on a lot of stuff, especially pads, guitar, some basses and the like. short attack, pretty short release, not actually much of compression ratio. Also lets you put more highs in said instruments without hurting the percussion attack, because the percussion just pushes everything away

@TemptedToClik 3 ай бұрын

Niiice. I’ve been doing this too similarly. I compress my kick and snare slightly cutting off the high peaks while keeping the attack and release short to keep the roundness thump of the kick. Then I slightly increase the gain a bit or the fader, leaves head room for the highs and mids. I also compress the highs slightly just the peak if I feel it too overpowering. I try not too over do it tho since the production can become too undynamic and bland so like you said ever sooo slightly. I also found alternating the velocities in certain highs can increase the perceived loudness and make it more dynamic

@prodbyandreas 8 ай бұрын

Good stuff

@machinelearning4376 10 ай бұрын

Dammmmn ok now i understood this concept. Thank you very much ❤

@em8969 Жыл бұрын

Best clipper ever

@Jupiter1423 Жыл бұрын

No its not - the elysia alpha master buss clipper is faaaaar superior.

@MrDarthSeriousmixes 11 ай бұрын

those triplet verses!!

@eskah8534 8 ай бұрын

This was the piece of information I was desperately looking for. Feels like the holy grail rn hahah thanks a lotttt for sharing 🖤

@tbonebeats6429 11 ай бұрын

Nice gem! Just tried it. Standard clip also has saturation option in the softclip settings.

@Dmik20 10 ай бұрын

What DAW is he using in this video?

@tbonebeats6429 10 ай бұрын

@@Dmik20it looks like FL

@Dmik20 10 ай бұрын

@@tbonebeats6429 Which is better FL or Ableton?

@briancase6180 11 ай бұрын

It's called crest factor. You want to reduce the crest factor to create the potential for a loud, clean master. SPAN and dpmeter can show you the crest factor metric. But, as you show, you can also understand the crest factor visually. This is a term of the art. It's amazing how few know the terms of their own art. Learn and get better.

@zahrillah5002 8 ай бұрын

Wow genius

@marvinmercadomusic 10 ай бұрын

Thats Why I subbed now...Thanks a lot for this Advice!!

@1032godofwar 11 ай бұрын

Great tips

@yosalla 11 ай бұрын

You must sing! You have such a wow voice.

@vestanpance99 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Agree with some others, have struggled to find a good explanation for the use of clippers. Still don’t get why brick wall limiting / true peak limiting different to a clipper, but at least now I’m clearer on how to use it.

@mixwithjerry 11 ай бұрын

It’s just more transparent. And if you choose to clip more past that threshold of being transparent, it doesn’t give out like a limiter does.

@vestanpance99 11 ай бұрын

@@mixwithjerry Nice one, thanks. Just got standard clip based off your vid. Not at the mixing stage of the track I’m working on, but looking forward to the results cos kick and snare are always trouble for me.

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

Another factor is that to a certain degree most listeners will percieve slight clipping (or distortion) as louder. Limiters will pump and fart if overdone, Clippers will sizzle an crackle an ugly distortion if overdone. Balancing both can minimize the negative effects of both while increasing percieved loudness

@nihuyevo_zhmihnulo 7 ай бұрын

This is why the first thing I do when I'm creating a new project is that I replace limiter on a master chain with stock flstudio soft clipper

@fabian6514.cr3 6 ай бұрын

it might be a good idea to create your own template to run on startup, thats what i did

@nihuyevo_zhmihnulo 6 ай бұрын

@@fabian6514.cr3 same, 1-9 channels chained to 10th, 11-19 channels chained to 20, 21-24 to 25, 26-29 to 30th, 11th channel has diablo, maximus, sc and eqo on, also vanilla percunator on 20th, also there's always automation clip for ducking of 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th, this saves me a lot of time

@woofmeow4273 6 ай бұрын

Ahh yes, nasty software clipping... Transients sound like glass but at least the mix is "loud".

@astralmade 5 ай бұрын

😴😴😴

@4am446 5 ай бұрын

Oof, my transients sound doo doo you’re right

@alvarezgamers 5 ай бұрын

Bedroom professional still at it ! Wait to you find out Grammy award winning engineers do this. 😂😂😂

@2BTO 4 ай бұрын

Tell me you know nothing about saturation without telling me

@fabz3303 4 ай бұрын

pin of shameeeeeeee

@Mixedbyaman Жыл бұрын

Very usefull bro❤❤

@nukykam 11 ай бұрын

Thank you

@brianlespoir6287 11 ай бұрын

As I always record my own 808, 909 or my favourite drumbrute impact kicks, i use flatline clipper to shape my kick.

@AdamJenkinsEverything 11 ай бұрын

slick! Love it.

@Jacob_Proto 10 ай бұрын

thanks!

@SEBPOFFICIAL 7 ай бұрын

All paranoid niche engineer cap vro🥶

@pattanrecords Жыл бұрын

master piece

@2MX2TV 7 ай бұрын

Dope

@tylernicolo7654 3 ай бұрын

Here's the best tip anyone could ever give...If it's a hit song, the mix and master don't matter all that much. I'll stand on that hill til I die.

@LMarquee Жыл бұрын

Clipping is a HUGE cheat code!

@geraldgoodiii6993 7 ай бұрын

I use it all the time

@super13218 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@kahyui2486 Жыл бұрын

It does make audible difference.

@mixwithjerry Жыл бұрын

It’s not very noticeable to the average ear listening to the entire mix if done lightly.

@Joshh.K 11 ай бұрын

and clip literally everything else, clip as much as you can get away with. it all adds up

@630171official 10 ай бұрын

before you apply that advice be familiar with gain staging though

@lilbigmanrecords1708 11 ай бұрын

u smart dawg

@SuperWolfkin 10 ай бұрын

great tip.

@djfridaze Жыл бұрын

i usually do this to either the drum bus or i make a all music bus with drums and instruments but i’m going to try this on kick and snare

@mixwithjerry Жыл бұрын

It works well on the drum bus if the kick and snare are at similar dB level. You won’t have as much control over how much each sound clips.

@blur_710 7 ай бұрын

Thanks playa

@tasenova2717 11 ай бұрын

then grab spectre a harmonic enhancer, put it everywhere u like, then grab another clipper with freeform waveshape, and distort it as much as you like into a true peak limiter lol (course tho at this point. you'll need headphones that can show the highs harshness so you don't ruin ur mix)