Orange Clip

On the bench it behaves like a clipper, scoring 10.0/10 on staying clean below the clip point and on a quiet signal path; the clipping itself is reported as character. Below the point where it starts clipping it stays flat (within ±0.00 dB), so it leaves your tone alone until you push it. At full level it makes 3.6% 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 -139 dB), so its color does not shift with how hard you push it. It delays the audio by 124 samples (2.6 ms at 48 kHz) and reports that delay, so your DAW lines it back up.

Measured score 10.0/10 — 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.