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

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 If you want specific tutorials/walkthroughs around music production, feel free to reach out. Here are our links: Instagram -   / ingramaudioco   Facebook -   / ingramaudioco   Twitter -   / ingramaudioco   Visit our website to see more of our cool music production software! https://ingramaudio.co 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.