Why do standard hard clippers sound bad?
Standard VST plugins for hard clippers have a fixed digital ceiling.
This has two fatal flaws:
- Clipping compresses your transients into mono.
- It adds persistent, musically muddy harmonics—digital aliasing.
This combination turns your mix into a thin, harsh, metallic mess.
BuzzCut’s new approach
is the world’s first clipper plugin for erosion. It modulates the clipping threshold using shaped noise.
This creates a unique transient response that:
- Preserves 3D stereo depth.
- Masks inharmonic foldback aliasing with “analog noise” during clipping—similar to how dithering masks distortion during truncation.
Now you have the freedom of choice: analog air.
BuzzCut Features: A Creative Sound Design Monster
. Everything You Need in a Mastering Clipper
Asymmetrical distortion for even harmonics
. Decoupled positive and negative clipping thresholds. Apply different waveforming curves and erosion to each polarity separately. This creates even-order harmonics—the warmth of analog tubes that no symmetrical clipper can touch.
DAW-Synced Dual-Channel Oscilloscope
: Take the guesswork out of seeing exactly what you’re doing with the waveform on both the LEFT and RIGHT channels simultaneously, in real time. Detach the oscilloscope for monitoring and customize the display to your preferences. No other clipper offers simultaneous dual-channel visual feedback with DAW sync.
Multi-stage RMS and LUFS matching with automatic
level matching and single-stage LUFS calibration. Hear the sound, not the volume jump. Three separate stages of automatic RMS gain compensation (soft clip, hard clip, mix) ensure signal control even at voltages down to -3 LUFS and beyond.
