Master = hard clip / Bus or individual track = soft clip ( or its the other way around ? )

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As i undertsand hard clip is more transparent and soft clip adds saturation/more distortion.

We always hear about soft clipping the master before limiter. but why not hard clip ? on my mastering chain i would want my clipping as transparent as it can be since i added all the saturation i wanted before the final clipper on the mastering chain.

But i would use a soft clipper on a drum bus to add saturation.

But what i hear often is the other way around soft clipper on the master and hard clipper on elements. why ?

thnaks !!!

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