Clip Gaining: Benefits, Use-Cases, and How To Do It in Logic Pro X

Описание: Plugins do make your audio sound better. But if you don’t prepare your audio to be processed well by the plugins, it won’t make it better. Garbage in, garbage out.

That’s why one of the must-dos when it comes to mixing is clip gaining. It’s manually controlling the gain of your audio file throughout its duration, as opposed to just setting up your faders.

Clip gaining ensures that the audio file’s gain is as even as possible before being processed by plugins.

In this video, I explain how it would be beneficial to clip gain, where to use it, and how to apply it on a country vocal track using Logic.

The software I used:

Logic Pro: https://www.apple.com/logic-pro

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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:07 - What is clip gaining?
00:18 - Benefits of clip gaining
00:52 - How clip gaining works
01:08 - Looking at the vocal track
01:30 - How to clip gain in Logic
01:54 - The unedited track on the compressor
02:34 - Making the cuts for clip gaining
02:47 - How to decide where to cut
03:21 - Applying clip gaining to the cut
03:50 - Making additional cuts for more adjustments
04:13 - The edited track on the compressor
04:23 - Comparing to the unedited track
04:50 - Continuing the clip gaining process
05:00 - You don’t have to be super in-depth
05:27 - Sometimes, you go too much with the edits
05:51 - Clip gaining another loud line
06:23 - Why Nick cuts the end of loud parts
07:11 - You can make adjustments after testing
08:03 - Making more clip gain edits
08:37 - Comparing to the unedited parts again
09:09 - Clip gaining isn’t just for leveling vocals out
09:25 - Demoing how to turn down S’s
09:59 - Clip gaining also applies to instruments
10:06 - Outro


About Nick Ingram
Nick Ingram is a music producer, recording/mixing engineer, science nerd, and cheese fry enthusiast. Over the past 13 years, Nick has worked hard in the music industry creating a unique sound and making a name for himself. Artist credits include Beartooth, Hawthorne Heights, Like Moths To Flames and more.