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I don't think it's really worth it... at least as much as clipping your digital master buss. Digital clipping always sounds clicky and cheap to my ears.
The only converters that I've tried and sound good for "clipping" are apogee's. I mix OTB and bounce to the hard disk through a rosetta 800 with the soft limit engaged. It's an analog, tape like limiter and tend to sound crunchy if pushed (you can clearly hear the harmonic distortion) but still retaining the dynamics and the tone.
If you want something cleaner, transparent to make your mixes louder then the Pendulum PL2 is great for the purpose, but not exactly cheap.
Nothing that I've tried so far in the digital domain comes even closer to these two units.
I almost forgot, aphex makes a compressor/leveller/limiter called compellor 320A/D. I never tried it but owning other aphex's equipment I guess it's definitely worth a try!
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