Clippers / measured
IK Multimedia · VST3
Passband flatness
2.0/10
±5.36 dB · scored
Clipping (harmonic)
4.858%
notable · character, by design
Noise
10.0/10
< floor · scored
Clipping action
-131 dB
minimal · character, by design
Latency
73 smp
factual · not scored
Output level vs. frequency.
Even below the clipping point it tilts your tone by up to ±5.4 dB, so it is not perfectly clean before it clips.
─ THD ┄ THD+N. THD is the trustworthy figure; THD+N is method-floor-limited at low levels.
At full level it makes 4.9% harmonics as it clips — that added edge is the clipping doing its job, not a fault.
Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear.
It treats quiet and loud the same (within -131 dB), so its color does not shift with how hard you push it.
It delays the audio by 73 samples (1.5 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.
On the bench it behaves like a clipper, scoring 6.8/10 on staying clean below the clip point and on a quiet signal path; the clipping itself is reported as character. Even below the clipping point it tilts your tone by up to ±5.4 dB, so it is not perfectly clean before it clips. At full level it makes 4.9% harmonics as it clips — that added edge is the clipping doing its job, not a fault. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. It treats quiet and loud the same (within -131 dB), so its color does not shift with how hard you push it. It delays the audio by 73 samples (1.5 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.
Measured score 6.8/10 — below-threshold passband flatness and signal-path noise (the clipping itself is the function, shown as character, not graded). How scoring works.
A review score is shown only when at least two independent sources — published reviews or genuine user discussion — return usable text. Launch or announcement coverage alone does not qualify, so some plugins read N/A here while still carrying a full measured score above.
| Plugin | Measured /10 | Mag dev | Max THD | Latency | Noise | Review /10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSAClipper | 10.0 | ±0.1 dB | 0.004% | 0 smp | <floor | 7.4 |
| Classic Clipper | 6.8 | ±5.4 dB | 4.858% | 73 smp | <floor | 7.0 |
| Gold Clip | 9.9 | ±0.1 dB | 1.748% | 764 smp | −197 | 8.3 |
| Orange Clip | 10.0 | ±0.0 dB | 3.645% | 124 smp | <floor | N/A |
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