GPW Ghost Clip.Loud you can see.
A converter-style mastering clipper. Scroll to push the mix into the ceiling.
Hit the ceiling
Everything above the CEILING gets clipped. The red is exactly what the clipper takes away.
Clipping you can read
How many dB are clipped right now, and the minute:second where the song clips hardest.
Three clippers, density, silk
CLASSIC, MODERN or HARD, loudness without attack or release, highs that soften at the ceiling, and a sidechain band that never touches the sub.
Loud you can see
Free demo download; license US$ 19, updates free forever.
Watch it in action.
Two and a half minutes: the three clippers, the ceiling, DENSITY and SILK, the sidechain band and the meters. Every sound the music makes is the plugin's own output.
Classic, Modern, Hard
CLASSIC has a soft knee and converter-style overload, MODERN is a hard clip a hair (about 0.09 dB) below HARD, and HARD stays clean right up to the ceiling. The ceiling holds the sample peaks of the clipped signal.
Loud, peaks untouched
No attack, no release: the quiet parts come up and the peaks stay where they are. Up to +2.5 dB in MODERN, up to +6 dB in CLASSIC. UNITY judges it at the same loudness.
No harsh bite
As the signal reaches the ceiling, SILK softens the highs above 3 kHz by up to about 4 dB. TONE adds a subtle high-end contour: FLAT, CLASSIC or MODERN.
Clip the punch, not the sub
Pick which frequencies go into the clipper with LOW CUT and HIGH CUT, drawn over a live spectrum. LISTEN plays only the band being clipped.
GPW Ghost ClipEverything on screen.
Everything you need to judge the clipping is in front of you: how many dB are being clipped right now, where the song clips hardest, what the clipper removed and short-term loudness in and out.
- CLIP−36 to 0 dB
Ceiling
From −36 to 0 dB, with anti-overshoot: it holds the sample peaks of the clipped (wet) signal, and CLIP GUARD holds it even with the clipper off. DRY, the frequencies outside the sidechain band and the OUTPUT trim are added after it.
- CLIP3 modes
Clipper
CLASSIC (soft knee, converter-style overload), MODERN (a hard clip a hair, about 0.09 dB, below HARD) or HARD (clean up to the ceiling), with its own power switch.
- CLIPUp to +6 dB
Density
Loudness without attack or release. The quiet parts come up, the peaks stay. UNITY compares at the same loudness.
- CLIPAbove 3 kHz
Silk
As the signal reaches the ceiling, the highs above 3 kHz soften by up to about 4 dB.
- CLIP3 contours
Tone
A subtle high-end contour before the clipper: FLAT, CLASSIC or MODERN.
- BANDLow / high cut
Sidechain
Only the band between LOW CUT and HIGH CUT goes into the clipper, drawn over a live spectrum. LISTEN solos it.
- METERLive dB
Clipping meter
A live meter in the screen and the CLIPPING readout show how many dB are being clipped right now, held for a second.
- METERMax · min:sec
Clip clock
The largest clip in the song and the minute:second where it happened, so you can go straight there and listen.
- METERReal time
Waveform screen
What the clipper removed (red), the output, and what DENSITY added, scrolling in real time.
- METERPeak · RMS · LUFS
Meters & LUFS
Input and output meters with peak and RMS, plus short-term LUFS in and out.
- MIXWet · dry · delta
Mixer
A true parallel mixer: WET and DRY faders, linked or independent, DELTA to hear only what changed, and mutes.
- MIX±12 dB
Trims
Input and output trims that can be linked. Shift-drag sets an offset between them.
- MORE4x · 8x · 16x
Oversampling
4x, 8x or 16x at 44.1/48 kHz (halved at 88.2/96 kHz, quartered at 176.4 kHz and up), in linear or minimum phase. BOUNCE has its own setting for offline renders: set it to the same as OVERSAMPLING and a bounce matches playback.
- MORE15 + yours
Presets
15 factory presets (mastering, mix bus, drums, vocals, creative) plus your own, a default-preset star and A/B compare.
Up close
Backlit mode windows, a screen that shows what was clipped, and a sidechain EQ drawn over the spectrum.
GPW Ghost Clip FAQ
Straight answers about what the plugin does and how to use it.
What is GPW Ghost Clip?
GPW Ghost Clip is a converter-style mastering clipper (VST3 for Windows) made by Ghost Producer World. It pushes your mix into one of three clippers (Classic, Modern, Hard), then adds density, top-end smoothing and a sidechain band, and shows you exactly how much it is clipping.
Which clipper should I pick?
CLASSIC has a soft knee and converter-style overload, MODERN is a hard clip a hair (about 0.09 dB) below HARD, and HARD stays clean right up to the ceiling. Set the CEILING, push the input until the CLIPPING readout shows a dB or two, and switch between them to hear which suits the track.
How do I keep the sub from being clipped?
Open SIDECHAIN and drag LOW CUT up, for example to 200 Hz. Only the band between LOW CUT and HIGH CUT goes into the clipper; the rest passes untouched, so the punch gets clipped and the sub stays clean. LISTEN plays only the band being clipped.
What do DENSITY and SILK do?
DENSITY adds loudness without attack or release: the quiet parts come up and the peaks stay where they are (up to +2.5 dB in MODERN, up to +6 dB in CLASSIC). UNITY lets you judge it at the same loudness. SILK softens the highs above 3 kHz by up to about 4 dB as the signal reaches the ceiling, which takes the harsh bite out of loud moments.
Does it add latency?
About 398 samples at 48 kHz with the default oversampling (High, 4x). The plugin reports it to the DAW, so delay compensation is automatic. Oversampling is 4x, 8x or 16x at 44.1/48 kHz (halved at 88.2/96 kHz, quartered at 176.4 kHz and up), in linear or minimum phase. BOUNCE sets its own oversampling for offline renders, so a bounce can differ from playback; set BOUNCE to the same as OVERSAMPLING and they match.
How much does GPW Ghost Clip cost?
US$ 19 for a license for one person, on as many of your computers as you like, and every update is free. The download itself is free: without a license the plugin runs in demo mode, with a short dropout of the sound every 45 seconds. Buy a license on this page, paste the key in the plugin (BUY / ACTIVATE, in its header) and the dropouts are gone.
GPW Ghost Clip is out.
Download it free and try it in demo mode. A license for US$ 19 removes the dropouts, and every update is free.