Glicol has no built-in limiter, so summed lines and high gains clip hard

Glicol provides no master limiter. Summed non-~ lines, high mul values, resonant lpf/rhpf at high Q, and self-referencing feedback buses can all clip the output hard. The discipline is gain-staging: keep a conservative mul 0.2–0.5 on each voice and put one master mul on the final out: line. This is ordinary headroom management — the more sources you sum, the lower each must sit.

Examples

out: mix ~a ~b ~c >> mul 0.3 // master trim ~a: saw 110 >> mul 0.4 // per-voice trim // resonant lpf at high Q + no trim → clips

Assessment

Three Glicol voices summed at mul 1.0 distort. Explain why (no limiter) and give a two-part gain-staging fix (per-voice and master).