The Benefits of Using Clipping Machine

Drum clipping has been a forward-thinking tool in the music industry for well over a decade now. Over the past few years, it’s picked up some mainstream traction, and is on track to being one of the biggest technologies of the next generation of mixing.

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Here are the three biggest benefits to clipping your drum tracks that we found during the development of DF-CLIP:

1. Increased Perceived Loudness

This one might seem a bit obvious to anyone that’s used a clipper in the past (or is familiar with the process). By clipping the drum’s transient, we’re able to significantly increase the gain on a drum track. This increased gain translates directly to a higher RMS volume, and can give a decent boost to your track’s perceived volume.

For tracks that are already “maxed out” level-wise, this increase in perceived loudness can be just what you need to get it over the edge.

2. Boosting Tone In A Dense Mix

In a dense drum mix, it’s easy to lose the clarity of your individual drums. This is bad news for your snare and toms, both of which can have a decent amount of body tone. While your transients aren’t as likely to get lost, your overall kit will suffer without the natural ring coming through.

By applying a clipper, it becomes easier to bring that ring out of each drum. You’re essentially level-matching your transient to the ring, allowing you to further process each track on a level playing field.

Your overall tone will benefit from the clipper’s application, especially with the multi-band functionality found on DF-CLIP, allowing you to get the most out of all that your drum shells have to offer.

3. Punchier, Controlled Transients

The opposite end of the spectrum from the boosted tone is the punch of your transient. Once again, by bringing these two elements closer together, we’re able to bring out the best of our drum mix.

Too often on something like a weak snare, we’ll capture a great attack without the frequency content to back it up. You can frequently hear this when a drum is hit and instantly disappears in the mix. Applying a clipper beefs it up by boosting some of those frequencies immediately behind the transient. This boost supports the transient, and lulls the listener into a sense of fullness.

Interested In Learning More About The Benefits of Clipping?

Check out our guide “Get Your Drums To Cut Through Any Mix” in which we dive head first into the technology behind DF-CLIP and the ways clippers have profoundly impacted our industry for the past decade (and where they’re going).

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Besides the single-clipping procedure, in which only one clip is ever applied at a time, there is the double-clipping procedure.

With the clipping system of a double-clipper, two closures are performed simultaneously, that is to say, the end of the filled packaging unit and the beginning of the next, as yet unfilled packaging unit, are closed at the same time. In this case a knife cuts through the casing (tubular bag) between the two clips and the next unit is then filled.

In order for a clip to be applied, ideally an empty space must first be created in the casing or tubular bag where the clip is to be placed. This is where the “separator” comes in.

The simplest version of this is the “normal” separator. To produce as clean a casing tail as possible, many double-clippers employ the tried and tested voiding separator.
Two pairs of separator blades apply a V-shaped notch – as with a pair of scissors – to the filled casing and constrict it. The so-called “spreading” process then commences, as the left-hand pair of separators is moved away from the stationary right-hand pair. The spreading process produces a clean casing tail of predetermined length, free of filling, around which the two clip closures are created. The (sausage-shaped) finished portion can then be separated between the closures.

Today, clipping is a natural and core component of all industrial sausage production.

And for small and medium-sized operations, too, the clipping machine has become part of the armoury of important production tools which considerably lightens the workload and saves time, as it replaces the labour-intensive tying procedure. But it is not as run-of-the-mill as it sounds. It is of course the form of a clip closure that is always demanded for a casing or tubular bag, but the requirements placed upon this closure are extremely varied.

Clip closure is subject to a range of conflicting requirements. It must, for example, close casings and tubular bags of differing thickness, sensitivity and hardness, and must do so gently, but also powerfully. Pre-tied casings with widely differing filling capacity must be closed just as securely as products which are divided into portions of precise weight. Production speeds up to 300 portions per minute are possible, depending on the filling weight, product viscosity and package calibre (diameter). In addition, there are a variety of product forms involved, such as portioned sausages (chubs), rounds, half rounds and bladders.

Additionally, the clip closure must withstand the high filling pressure, and it must be tight, but also flexible where necessary. Clip closure must be dimensionally stable even above 80 °C, since the product is sometimes subjected to further thermal treatment, as in the case of cheese which is smoked. It must be capable of closing both hot- and cold-filled products. Thus, clipping technology is more demanding than it might at first seem.

A growing number of clip types and sizes are on offer for the various casing types and products. A basic distinction is made between pre-formed reel clips (R-Clip, R-ID Clip) and U-shaped single clips (S-Clip/U-Clip). Clips on reels (spools) are the indispensable standard in industrial manufacture.

S-clips are used for special applications, for example where high product weights or very large calibres are involved, for the processing of portioned products (with pre-tying), with natural casings for traditional products and with table-top machines. The wide range of requirements made by small and medium-sized firms are also exceptionally well catered for by the multi-faceted S-clips.