Schwabe Digital announce Gold Clip

Gold Clip is a clipper, loudness saturator, mid- and high-frequency peak contour processor, distortion device, box tone generator, clip clock and true parallel mixer. Gold Clip can be a mastering processor, a unique dynamic effect for mixing and a creative tool for production. It can be clean and reserved, or loud, angry, and distorted.

Gold Clip uses cutting edge digital signal processing techniques to create a versatile, high-precision clipping effect with tons of flexibility and highly optimized performance.

The primary clipping algorithms are modeled from a pair of well-known hardware units using integrated wave-shaping in conjunction with oversampling, resulting in a clipping sound that is clean, natural, and free of aliasing artifacts. Gold Clip also includes a pair of harmonically rich loudness saturation algorithms as well as a unique mid- and highfrequency peak shaper which works in conjunction with clipping algorithms to provide a maximally smooth and loud master.

Additionally, all the signal processing algorithms achieve the best performance possible on modern CPUs by utilizing cache locality and data-level parallelism.

There are three main functions to Gold Clip: Clipper, Gold, and Alchemy.

The clipping behavior carefully emulates the overloading effects of two famous mastering converters. Gold recreates the unique loudness saturation processing found on those devices and Alchemy emulates the mid- and high-frequency peak contouring on the modern mastering processor. The powerful clipper allows you to increase loudness through unique clean clipping processor. Gold allows you amplify low level information without changing the character of the peaks and Alchemy allows you reduce the unwanted effects of clipping by dynamically manipulating the midand high-frequencies as the signal approaches the clip point. It is truly a unique sound that you will hear on many hit records to come.

The clipper beautifully emulates the clipping e ects of two famous mastering converters, allowing you to bring your masters to life with three unique settings: Modern, Classic and Hard.

Gold is the compressor you never knew existed. It compresses, but does so without the artifacts associated with attack and release that you hear on classical compressors. It’s instantaneous like the magnetization of tape.

Alchemy is your clippers best friend. Alchemy is a subtle e ect that contours the mid- and high-frequency peak information but leaves the signal below the peaks completely untouched. Like Gold, it is also instantaneous.

We like to call it Digital Tape.

Full details on the website www.SchwabeDigital.com