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Jesse Ray Ernster
(Doja Cat, Burna Boy, Kanye West)
“Gold Clip is the real deal. I’m achieving 2db of extra loudness over the previous clippers I was using. GoldClip beautifully absorbs peak information without sacrificing transients, and the mix somehow retains all of its fidelity and strength; it’s simply remarkable.”
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Bainz
(Young Thug, Machine Gun Kelly, Mario, Offset and more)
“Gold Clip is the ultimate loudness tool for any producer or engineer. It helps you get your tracks loud without sacrificing transients or low end — you can be pushing peaks without fear of distortion.”
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Dale Becker
SZA, Wizkid, Lil Naz X, Justin Bieber
"I've owned 4 different iterations of this converter over the years and know the sound very well. Gold Clip really nails the character and tone while also providing some useful optimizations and powerful options to fine tune the processing to suit a broader range of material. I just finished an album using Gold Clip as my final and only limiter/clipper on the project. Both the client and I were very happy!"
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Tony Maserati
(Beyoncé, Jason Mraz, Mary J Blige, Notorious B.I.G)
"Gold Clip is one of those mysterious magic boxes that can somehow give my mix more excitement and apparent loudness. I don't know what it does, I don't know how it does it but I love it and it's on my mix bus everyday"
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Jonathan Low
(Taylor Swift, The National, The War on Drugs)
“Gold Clip has been on every one of my mixes since I've gotten it. My mixes come into focus faster with added clarity. The way it deals with peaks is so elegant; it's incredibly easy to add perceived level while maintaining the impact of transient material. The Gold processing is magic, it adds a level of cohesion that works on any style of music I've thrown at it.”
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Craig Bauer
Kanye West, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Kurt Elling
“Deciding which models to use are hardest part of using Gold Clip. It’s impossible to make it sound bad…. even if you’re unfamiliar with using a clipper. It’s now replaced my previous “go to” for parallel processing on kick and snare samples.”
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Eric J. Dubowsky
(Flume, Odesza, St. Vincent, The Chemical Brothers, Kimbra, Weezer)
“From the first moment I put it on a track I could hear this was something I was going to use everyday. Gold Clip allows you to get some of the magic of the famous hardware units but now you can put it on your mix bus AND drums! As a clipper I found I was able to push the limits of the mix without sacrificing clarity. It’s a must have.”
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Nicolas De Porcel, Million Dollar Snare
(Roddy Rich, Baby Keem, Muni Long, DaBaby, 6lack, Omah Lay)
“Gold clip isn’t a just another emulation—it’s superior to its hardware counterparts. It allows me to drive the signal of my masters with unprecedented precision and grace. I’m able to approach low end in a whole new way, all with a beautifully straightforward interface.”
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Noah “MIXGIANT” Glassman
(Burna Boy, PinkPantheress, Amaarae)
“Gold Clip is my new secret weapon. I have yet to insert this plug-in without noticing an immediate improvement to the depth and dimension of my mixes. Gold Clip does something that I can't seem to achieve with any other digital audio tools.”
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Chris Tabron
(Beyoncé, The Strokes, Lianne La Havas)
“Gold clip is a truly singular plugin, and the way it can give me increased perceived loudness without sacrificing detail and clarity is unparalleled”
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Glenn Schick
(Future, J. Cole, Missy Elliot)
“Clipper plugins are usually as exciting as paint drying, but Gold Clip is a different beast. The first time I used it was for a client who just loves analog. Gold Clip brought the feel of running signal through my old DB Technologies A/D days back! It's a very unique plugin!”
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Benjamin Thomas
(Lil Uzi Vert, Meek Mill, Jazmine Sullivan, Future)
“Gold Clip is like no other plugin. The ability of Gold Clip to get a depth and clarity in the low end is extremely unique and essential in my recording and mixing of modern hip-hop!”
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Calin Enache
(IDK, Offset, Benny the Butcher, Denzel Curry)
“I’ve tried countless clipper plugins and hardware units. GoldClip wipes the floor with all of them and does so by a pretty wide margin. I’m legitimately able to get an extra dB or two of loudness compared to my previous favorite clipper and thus don’t need to rely on limiters nearly as much. It’s essentially changed the way I make my mixes loud. Unreal.“
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Jamie Lidell
(Mura Masa, Feist, Lil Wayne)
“This one gives a good licking to the mix. It is indeed the gold standard of the clippers. I’ve tried a bunch and this one comes out on top. Highly recommended!"
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Zino Mikorey
(Nils Frahm, Hans Zimmer, Fred Again, Metronomy)
“I am absolutely in awe with the gold processing and new clipping algorithm for certain genres.
You truly brought something special to the palette that is in my opinion far far better than the unit it originated from!”
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Elaine Rasnake
(Gregory and the Hawk, Chase Petra, Sadurn)
"Gold Clip has completely changed the way I look at clipping and has immediately become a part of my daily workflow. It's like a mastering swiss army knife. Within this one plugin, I am able to bring extra loudness, life, and an analog feel to my masters in a way I never thought was possible."
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Ryan Schwabe
(Baauer, BAYNK, Ellie Goulding, Tobi Lou, Cafuné)
“I made it — what do you think I’m gonna say? its top tier”
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Hardwell
“I really love Gold and Orange clip, they really add something else. Gold clip sounds ridiculous good on the master bus and handles the transients very well.”
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John Nathaniel
OneRepublic, Shawn Mendes, Akon
“GOLDCLIP is amazing! It can act very transparently when you need it to or add a subtle expensive sounding sheen to records! You can tell it was made meticulously.”


Listen
Overloading Live Drum Beaks by RJD2
Inflating indie productions by Noah Beresin
Blowing Out Electronic Music by Baauer
Subtly Inflating the Low End on Beats From Noah Beresin
Squeezing House Infused Tracks by Noah Beresin

Make Your Masters Sound Like Gold
GOLD CLIP was painstakingly crafted for over three years by Grammy nominated & Platinum certified engineer Ryan Schwabe to emulate two of his favorite hardware mastering devices. Gold Clip uses cutting edge technology to create a versatile, high-precision clipping effect, a unique amplitude saturation effect called GOLD and high frequency contouring effect called ALCHEMY.
Read more about GOLD CLIP PACK in our blog below.
Features
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The Clipper
The clipper beautifully emulates the effects of two famous mastering converters, allowing you to bring your masters to life with three unique settings. The modern and classic settings are tuned to match the character of their hardware counterparts and Hard is a custom setting that maintains the integrity of the signal up until the clip point.
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Gold
Gold is the compressor you never knew existed. It compresses the audio, but does so without the artifacts associated with attack and release that you hear on classical compressors. The compression is instantaneous, like the compression effect from the magnetization of tape, but does not effect the spectral balance of the signal like tape. Gold significantly increases perceived loudness of your tracks while leaving peaks and transients untouched.
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Alchemy 2
Alchemy can be considered digital tape. Alchemy reduces the harmonic effects of clipping by contouring the mid and high frequencies down by as much as 2 dB after the signal is clipped. Mid and high frequencies are reduced as the input signal approaches the clip point, softening the harmonics that may occur when clipping. The sonic effect closely resembles the high-frequency saturation of tape, while leaving the rest of the signal untouched.
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Box Tone
Boxtone uses an ultra-precision linear phase EQ to mimic the high-frequency contour of the modern and classic devices. The EQ subtly smooths the high frequencies while filtering out ultrasonic information. Below 1kHz the signal is perfectly flat.
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Clip Clock
Gold Clip’s unique Clip Clock feature shows you the min:sec of the song where the highest level of clipping takes place. The goal when using gold clip is to clip as cleanly as possible and Gold and Alchemy processing to increase loudness. Clip Clock tells you where the maximum amount of clipping takes place in the song allowing you to dial in the perfect amount of clipping for every record.
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Parallel Mixer
Unlike most plugins with a mix-blend function, Gold Clip is a true parallel mixer. With Gold Clip you can unlink the dry & wet signal and operate them independent of one another. Heavily distort the signal and blend that distortion in to the 100% dry signal for bottom up distortion. Subtly clip your song and then and add peaks back by blending in the dry signal. The unlinked mixer opens up a world of possibilities that is not possible with other clippers.
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A/B
Gold Clip offers a unique implementation of the AB comparisons function often found in plugins. When you first open Gold Clip both A and B states are active— they are both lit up. As you make your changes they are applied to both A and B states. When you click A or B they become unlinked; allowing you make more detailed changes to one plug-in state for comparison.
Gold Processing
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Linear Transfer
A transfer function shows the input and output signal of a processor. If the input is equal to the output it is considered a linear transfer. If the process changes as the input signal gets louder it is considered non-linear. The above graph shows a linear process — input on the X axis is equal to output on the Y axis.
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+6dB of Linear Gain
If the processor adds 6dB of linear gain to the signal the output is 6dB louder and peaks are clipped by 6dB. Using a clipper in this way can yield creative results, but they are not always transparent.
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Gold Processing
Gold processing adds up to 6dB of non-linear gain to the input signal. As the input signal approaches the clip ceiling, the non-linear gain will exponentially reduce to 0dB of gain. Gold processing makes the signal louder by amplifying low level material, but keeps peak information below the clip point perfectly intact.
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Unity Gain
If Gold adds 6dB of level, Unity Gain will reduce the signal by 6dB after all other processing. This process reduces peaks by 6dB, but maintains perceived loudness. Gold Processing with Unity Gain will increase the headroom in your tracks without altering the integrity of your transients.
Compatibility
Mac OS
Mac OS 10.13 or higher
Native Silicon Support
Apple Silicon - M1, M2... (recommended)
Apple Intel - Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
PC
Windows 11 (recommended)
Windows 10
Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
While Gold Clip may run on older OS and hardware, we cannot guarantee future compatibility or support on those systems.
(1) Gold Clip License = (2) Concurrent Installations
We highly encourage you to use modern computers with Gold Clip. Computers older than 2018 are most likely not supported. Please test Gold Clip on your system before purchasing if your computer is relatively old.


