The clipper that breathes. Every other clipper nails its threshold to a number and dares your mix to hit it. Ghost Clipper's threshold moves with the music — BREATHE opens it in time with the signal, so you get the loudness without the squash. And where the others hand you a hard/soft switch, KNEE gives you the entire range in between.
A static clipper treats your mix like it's a test tone — one threshold, forever, no matter what the song is doing. Ghost Clipper listens. The threshold rides the music, the knee morphs continuously from brick to butter, and a 16× oversampled FIR keeps the true peaks honest while the ceiling guard makes sure nothing ever pokes through. Five knobs on the panel, two truth buttons next to them, and a scope that shows you exactly what's being taken.
Instead of sitting still, the threshold opens in time with the signal — leaning into the music's own motion so you gain loudness without flattening the life out of it. Loudness up, squash out. This is the knob the name comes from.
Most clippers give you HARD and SOFT and call it flexibility. KNEE is a continuous morph — every knee shape between a brick-wall edge and a soft round-over lives on one knob. The right amount of mean is somewhere in the middle, and now you can actually park there.
A 16× oversampled FIR stage catches the inter-sample peaks that plain clippers let through — and the latency it costs is reported to your DAW, so everything stays sample-aligned. No secret smear, no unlabeled delay.
A switchable guard stage sits at the ceiling and makes it a promise instead of a suggestion. Flip it on and true peaks stop at the line, every time, no matter how hard you lean on the input.
DELTA solos exactly what the clipper is removing, so you know when you've crossed from glue into damage. AUTO handles the level housekeeping so louder never fools you into thinking it's better.
The live LED scope draws the threshold and your peaks against each other in real time — with the ghost riding the line. One glance tells you how hard you're working the clipper and what BREATHE is doing about it.
AU + VST3 — drop it in and go. If your DAW loads plugins, it loads this one.
Ghost Clipper is $49.99, one time, yours forever. Or take the whole Ghost Audio catalog for $149.99 ($100 while we're in launch). No subscriptions, no fake sales.
Any DAW that loads VST3 or AU: Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig, and more. Not Pro Tools: Pro Tools only loads AAX plugins, and we do not make an AAX build.
Yes — at launch, every paid pedal gets a free 10-day demo that's the full plugin, not a crippled teaser. Join the list below and you'll get it first.
No dongles, no always-online check. Install it on any computer you work on.
Two things a static clipper can't do. BREATHE lets the threshold open in time with the signal instead of sitting at one fixed number, so you get loudness without squashing the motion out of the mix. And KNEE is a continuous morph from hard to soft — not a two-position switch — so every knee shape in between is on the knob. Underneath, a 16× oversampled FIR with reported latency and a switchable ceiling guard keep the true peaks where you set them.
Press DELTA — it solos exactly what the clipper is removing, so your ears get the difference instead of guessing. AUTO keeps the level honest, and the LED scope draws your peaks against the threshold in real time, ghost included.
Try the free 10-day demo first — it's the full plugin, so you can hear exactly what you're buying. All sales are final after that, and if something's ever broken on our end, we'll make it right.
Launch news, the trial build, and one preset bank we're not selling. No spam — we make plugins, not newsletters.