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Originally Posted by Greg Reierson  A clipper is a limiter with zero attack and release time constants. |
What Greg said - although there are indeed "soft clippers" that have a knee (sometimes even adjustable) for these parameters - although it could be argued that these are more "limiters" than "clippers". Anyway - a clipper basically lops off any transient that reaches the set threshold so that the wave form is "flat topped" at its highest points. Where as some digital limiter algorithms can "rescale" the audio so that the wave form doesn't get flat topped (at least as dramatically) even as average level is increased.
Best regards,
Steve Berson