Slate Digital Bus Clipper
Peak Clipper Plugin
The Slate Digital Bus Clipper is a high-precision digital clipping and waveshaping tool engineered specifically for the critical mixing and mastering stages.
Designed for the "Do It Yourself" engineer, it provides the manual control needed to achieve professional, modern loudness without sacrificing the punch and attack of your transients.
Shave the Peaks, Push the Rest Forward
Bus Clipper is a two-stage clipping plugin built for the mastering chain.
Shave transient peaks to reclaim headroom, then push loudness with wave-shaping.
The Clipper stage works sample-by-sample.
If the signal is too high, it gets turned down instantly while everything else passes through untouched. No attack knob, no release, no lookahead.
Three clipping modes, each customizable with the Shape/Harmonics knob, let you move between hard clipping, gentle saturation, and precision harmonic generation.
The Booster stage uses waveshaping to increase perceived loudness without raising the peak level.
Quieter parts of the signal get lifted while louder parts stay put.
The master sounds louder and more present without the intermodulation artifacts that come from time-based limiting.
Featuring three booster modes (Mellow, Standard, and Aggressive) with a Gain knob and real-time transfer function display, you can see the exact curve you’re applying.
Make Your CPU Work Smarter, Not Harder
Clipping generates supersonic harmonics that fold back into the audible range as artifacts if they're not filtered out.
Some clippers need 256x oversampling to handle this.
Bus Clipper's alias-reduction algorithm generates fewer of those harmonics in the first place, so 16x gets you the same quality at a fraction of the CPU cost.
Pick your rate (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x), choose linear-phase or minimum-phase downsampling filtering, and the True Peak Limiter at the end of the plugin can catch any remaining overshoots.
System Requirements
- MacOS 13 Ventura and above
- Officially supported up to MacOS 26 Tahoe
- Windows 11 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more
- Free iLok account and iLok License Manager
- iLok Machine and iLok USB licensing methods are supported
- Includes 2 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
