BuzzCut | The Erosion Clipper

Been playing with your baby since last night and BuzzCut is defo my new favourite plugin hahaa 😝🤟 It’s insane dude! Sounds so good! Not guna lie I only just found the buzz threshold fader this morning and then it changed my life 🤤 Amazing work brother 🤟

I like your thinking. Yes your idea is good! So what you're doing is effectively being able to dither a soft clip OVER the hard clip point… sort of. Love it. And I can see how it would directly apply to bass music. I may rave about it in my plugin video I'm recording today. Well done! Even if it's not literal 'dithering aliasing to make it go away' it's something really interesting and musically useful along those lines. And I suspect it's closer to 'literal dithering aliasing' on certain kinds of signals, than anybody would have guessed

Okay this thing is actually really cool. I've got a lot of clippers and limiters (some with built in clipping) and I'm a huge fan of novel ideas like this one. I'm not hearing it as "noise", which I think is exactly what you're going for. Usually transients are essentially bursts of noise anyways, so it makes sense to clip like this. I'm surprised no one thought of this before, but I'm glad you did! I'd love to keep using this on projects. I also want to add that I think the GUI is pretty unique and cool. I love it when stuff is functional but has its own aesthetic and isn't copying everything else that's come before it.

I gave it a go and it sounds pretty awesome thus far! I found the interface fairly intuitive, although you have quite a few different controls the tooltips are helpful (I beta test for many companies). Overall the sound so far seems very natural and easy to get loud and pretty clean with the dense, heavy music I make. Hope this is a success and you keep developing!

This is one of the best and most innovative plugins out there right now. Buzzcut is a brilliant cut on a theory i played around with before, where injected dithering dithering noise working in tandem with clipping and and some handy controls allow to gain level and at the same time reduce digital harshness from the algorithmic processes, an itb version of what the process of a digital ADDA converter naturally does to the sound, which results in a more full and pleasant sound (dare i say analog-y) of whatever you throw on to it. Level AND aural creaminess ?! Count me in. The plugin itself is really well thought of and properly designed - clear and straight forward, the small but indispensable controls on the clippers and tools (like two dc offsets), allow to manipulate the signal in a way that is difficult to do with a full chain of dithers and clippers. Easy to use and sounds great. It's marketed for mixbus and mastering duties, but i suggest using it on individual busses and even instruments. Been dreaming with a tool like this and i couldn't possible done it better, bravo! Straight to my toolbox and it should go to yours too.

Interesting approach. It maintains clarity better than other clippers, sound remains crisp and defined; if I wouldn't know I would have suspected some type of multiband clipping. Because of that clarity, even at the same volume, it has the effect of sounding a bit louder. I like the idea of offering IIR and FIR options for the oversampling filters (everybody should do that IMO). Aliasing is nicely kept in check, especially at 16x, without eating a ton of CPU. I also like the noise being able to mask it, basically an original implementation of dither, but with some interesting shaping and level options. I'd love to have some kind of db scale on one side of the oscilloscope, just to have hint of how much it clips, but other than that it's a solid release. Oh, and I loved the video

I am blown away by the sound of this clipper. One of the first clippers in a while to truly do something different and the sound quality pays off. Ignoring all of the knee and asymmetrical settings, the hard clipper alone sounds so much more interesting when pushed hard compared to other hard knee clippers. Yes, there is still distortion, but it doesn't bother the ear as much. I tried using this heavily on a master and was shocked how well it held up comparing it to two other commonly used mastering clippers. If I had one critique, it's that the controls are a bit finnicky and hard to wrap my head around. Some of the buttons kept getting engaged when I tried to just use the knobs, which kept throwing me off. I think those kinks will get worked out though, and this clipper is truly groundbreaking in its audio quality.

Wow super interesting! Without actually reading anything, I can't say I'm getting much 'info' out of the display at this point, but it sounds killer. I honestly can't recall using any other plugin where I was able to make my drums chug like that, sick!

Buzzcut is a unique among the clippers/limiters I tried (Softube Clipper, TC BRICKWALL HD, Wave Breaker in ClipperX mode and Newfangled Audio Saturate) as it seems to noise shape the distortion from the clipping process making the distortion of the clipping process an enhancement to presentation of the soundstage. Where the other limiters I tried display varying amount of distortion from clipping, soft clipping or limiting , the distortion was not complimentary to the clipped/limited signal, accept for in part maybe Saturate which also seem to present the distortion of clipping in a somewhat pleasing way. Saturate can sound louder and more forward but appears to retain less dynamics and be less 3 dimensional compared to Buzzcut. Buzzcut was less forward without an overly-loud presentation with more musicality and articulation of the clipped signal. The Buzzcut clipped signal sounded better when at zero than the other clipper/limiters I tried on the track I was test them with. With Buzzcut, it was as if I was able to hear deeper into the signal as it retained more perceived dynamic as the spatial cues did not collapse like with the other clipper/limiters. The stereo field remained intact and became articulated/enhanced. If want you to retain the vibe of your song try enhancing it with Buzzcut - it is worth testing on it on your mix. It should be noted that articulating the distortion from clipping can also articulate any distortion that may have been masked in your song before your crank it up with clipping. If you are mixing in the box, it would be worth inserting Buzzcut across your 2-bus while you are mixing as you will hear your mix with a different perspective when comes to adding distortion to individual tracks. With Buzzcut the your mixing decisions may change when you can just let a less processed element of your mix slam into your final clipper and have it sound intentional rather than like another brick of sound in a wall of unintentional clipping distortion.

I've already got way to many clippers, but I'm really liking this. This is a different and a fresh approach. It somehow uses noise to modulate the clipping to avoid inharmonic distortion and aliasing. I was able to push an already pushed mix even more without any audible consequences, reaching one extra dB than before, easily. When pushing hard the distortion is somehow more pleasing and the material remains clear and open. It's a really well laid out plugin, but it takes a little time to get used to and understand everything and some settings are a little hard to grasp at first. Luckily there are helpful pop-up tips when you hover over the various buttons and sliders so that makes it more easy. It's got delta mode, so it's easy to set up and listen to how much you are affecting, and autogain. Both linear and minimum phase OS up to 16x is a big plus. Wish it had offline settings though. I appreciate the graphics also, and being able to see what your doing to the waveform. I've been facinating by using noise in various subtle ways to enhance sources, so I really enjoyed playing with upward noise also, for adding textures. Reminds me a bit of fidef and similar plugins. It's not just a clipper, but a creative sound-shaping tool! Everything seems very well thought out, and I'm not missing much, except maybe a manual. And offline OS settings. Would recomend trying it out.

Just loaded it in Reaper and ran it on snare and kick against my usual clippers. This thing sounded really nice with minimal tweaking. Has some good weight to it. I found i could drive it a bit harder than my usuals. Low cpu usage is always nice. I'll give it a more thorough test on a song i'm mixing later. Nice work on your first plugin!

Gave it a spin. And I'm pleasantly surprised. I've been holding off purchasing clippers because the more I read, the more it looks like all of them do basically the same thing: "hard, flat ceiling", quoting your own words. With this one though, I had to push very, very hard to hear distortion, once I started hearing the delta as what I would like added to my sound, the material got loud, probably could back off a bit, but what I heard was clear loudness and not loudness that would sound "obviously clipped". I don't know if that's what you are going for, but that's my take I couldn’t get it added to mono tracks on Logic, so hopefully a true mono version is in the works. But liked that it's 0 latency.