What is clipping and why is it in my track?

Clipping is when signal peaks get flattened against the digital ceiling because the track was exported too loud. Tracks from AI generators (Suno, Udio) and hot DAW exports often arrive already clipped — that's where the 'muddy', 'squashed' sound comes from.

How does the De-clipper work?

A detector finds regions where the signal hit the ceiling and reconstructs the original peak shape with cubic interpolation over the clean neighboring samples. Only short cuts (under 2 ms) are restored — long flat runs are left alone to avoid artifacts. The track then goes through the normal mastering chain.

Do I need to enable the De-clipper manually?

No. The clipping detector runs on every track automatically; when clipping is found, restoration is applied by itself and the track passport shows a 'peaks restored' note.

How is Album Mode different from regular batch processing?

A regular batch pushes every track to the same target LUFS — a quiet interlude ends up as loud as a single. In Album Mode the loudest track is mastered exactly to the target, while the rest keep their original relative loudness offsets (up to −8 LU) — the album dynamics you intended are preserved.

De-clipper and Album Mode: Two New Features for Your Release Quality

2026-07-19 · Magic Master

Two new features shipped tonight — both born from real user complaints and market analysis: the De-clipper (restoring clipping in the input file) and Album Mode for batch mastering.

De-clipper: fixing the sound before mastering even starts

A frequent cause of a "muddy", "squashed" result is clipping already present in the input file. Tracks from AI generators and hot DAW exports arrive with peaks flattened against the ceiling: transients destroyed, replaced by harsh harmonic distortion. Mastering couldn't help such a track — damage on the input stayed on the output.

Now it gets fixed:

The clipping detector automatically checks every uploaded track (share of samples at the digital ceiling, number of flattened regions).
When clipping is found, the De-clipper reconstructs the peak shapes with cubic interpolation over the clean neighboring samples — the transient gets back the tip that was cut off on export.
Only short cuts (under 2 ms) are restored. Long flat runs are deliberately left alone — reconstruction there risks artifacts.
The track passport shows an honest note: clipping detected → peaks restored.

On a hard-clipped test signal the De-clipper reduces harmonic distortion by more than 30% and returns the pre-clipping peak shape. Clean files pass through bit-identical.

Album Mode: your release dynamics, protected

Batch mastering used to push every track to the same target LUFS. That's right for a collection of unrelated singles — but wrong for an album: a quiet interlude got blown up to dance-track loudness, and the deliberate arc of the release disappeared.

In the new Album Mode (a checkbox in the batch section):

All tracks are analyzed before processing.
The loudest one becomes the anchor and is mastered exactly to the target LUFS.
The rest keep their original relative offsets (up to −8 LU) — the interlude stays quieter, the closer stays louder, just as you intended.

Verified in production: the anchor track hits the target within 0.01 LU, the quiet track hits its offset target with the same precision, and the relative difference is fully preserved.

How to try it

De-clipper — nothing to do: it runs automatically on every mastering. Check the track passport after processing.
Album Mode — upload your album in the batch section (up to 10 tracks, Pro/Studio) and tick "Album mode".

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