Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this Iconic Insights episode 2 I have Ryan Schwabe on the show, creator of the Gold Clip and Orange Clip plugins, founder of Schwabe Digital, double-Grammy nominated, multi-platinum engineer. We discuss how to use clippers properly in mixing and mastering, the biggest mistake people make when using clippers, and what the bad side-effects of too much clipping are.
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In this Iconic Insights episode 2 I have Ryan Schwabe on the show, creator of the Gold Clip and Orange Clip plugins, founder of Schwabe Digital, double-Grammy nominated, multi-platinum engineer. We discuss how to use clippers properly in mixing and mastering, the biggest mistake people make when using clippers, and what the bad side-effects of too much clipping are.
Watch the Full Ryan Schwabe Video: youtu.be/qkCQHg3eXUg?
Watch the Iconic Insights Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyXZjufQdPx0fGNFnHo_DIWhkfdZS11m
Support Me in Making More Free Videos: warpacademy.com/membership-account/membership-plans
Gold Clip: bit.ly/getgoldclip
Orange Clip: bit.ly/getorangeclip
More About Ryan Schwabe: ryanschwabe.com
@schwabedigital
★ STAY IN TOUCH ★
Discord ➤ discord.gg/ZwNgZteGKw
Instagram ➤ instagram.com/warpacademy
★ ABOUT WARP ACADEMY ★
Warp Academy empowers artists to reach their full potential, create exceptional music, and live their passion. We’re a global, online collective that includes music producers, audio engineers, label owners, sound designers, festival organizers, booking agents, managers, leading audio brands and more.
We hook you up with all the education, tools, and connections you need to create professional-quality music and launch a successful career. You can learn almost any topic by searching our library of hundreds of free tutorial videos and production tools. Join us. We’re stoked to meet you!

![How to Make Glitchy Granular Bass [Ableton Granulator II Tutorial]
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Finding your “Sound” as a producer nearly always begins with learning new ways to (literally) create NEW sounds. Lucky for you, Ableton Live is full of MIND-BLOWING sound design tools including a hyper-powerful synth, Granulator II.
At Warp Academy, we have a resident glitch & granular sound design expert, Merlyn Silva. He’s signed to Iboga Records and teaches music production at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, so he’s well-qualified on the subject. In this tutorial video, he’ll show you one of his favorite techniques for creating glitched-out basses in Ableton Live.
This video is just a taste of Merlyn’s full course, Glitches and Grains:
Granular Sound Design over at Warp Academy (http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT).
The Glitches and Grains course puts an array of wicked-powerful new sound design skills in your sound design arsenal. You get super deep into Ableton Live’s power features and unlock its full potential.
Taking this course will reveal workflows and processes that few producers ever discover. Become an Ableton power user by unlocking these epic production secrets.
Glitches and Grains: Granular Sound Design over at Warp Academy (http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT).
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0:09 - Audio Example
0:19 - What is Glitches & Grains: Granular Sound Design?
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2:16 - Texture Layer
2:48 - Pro Tip 1
3:32 - Cool ending effect
4:02 - Adding extra energy to create a feeling of “opening up”
4:54 - Final thoughts
5:26 - Outro How to Make Glitchy Granular Bass [Ableton Granulator II Tutorial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9x4NMyWhAwA/mqdefault.jpg)




![Headroom, Gain Staging & Clipping in 32 Bit Digital Audio [Mixing Tutorial]
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0:00 Intro
1:44 Do you need 6 dB of headroom?
2:29 Where the -6 dBFS target came from
3:54 Why some experts are saying to leave headroom in your mix & pre-master
4:30 Recommended plugin input levels
5:26 Doing a reference test master
6:04 Can plugins on your tracks, busses or your master safely handle signals above 0 dB without causing problems?
7:13 How to test plugins for input levels & clipping behavior
10:28 How to gain stage properly in chains of plugins
11:34 Seeing as modern DAWs are using 32 bit floating point processing, does it even matter if you clip your master?
12:23 Analyzing clipped audio exports in 32 bit floating point & 24 bit fixed point
13:34 2 reasons to leave headroom in 32 bit digital audio
14:19 Is clipping really that bad? And do you need to avoid it at all costs?
16:15 Summary & outro
#gainstaging #headroom #premaster Headroom, Gain Staging & Clipping in 32 Bit Digital Audio [Mixing Tutorial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CGRusg9GnAg/mqdefault.jpg)

![Time Align Vocals FAST + Creative FX in VocAlign
I took this single, mono lead vocal and created a thick, wide vocal stack using VocAlign Pro 6. In this video I cover super fast vocal timing / time alignment, as well as creative effects in VocAlign from SynchroArts and @LANDRmusic
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The featured song, Fate is by Sam Winter from his upcoming Light Language EP which will be released on the Warp Academy label, Faster than Light (FTL) Recordings. Support him on Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/81fLTfXazELsJXtm7
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