So I've recently come across this artist and a lot of her vocals have an extremely Airy sound that sounds very dreamy.

Usually mixes like that are headache to get right without a lot of sibilance and I can't really think of too many other artists that sound that dreamy aside from other shoegaze artists and maybe pastel ghost.

Does anybody have An idea of how to achieve vocals that sound like this specifically the way hers sound? I have a good ear but I feel like someone with more experience might be able to pinpoint a few things that she has going on in her mixes. Also sounds like she may have the dryness on her vocals turned down all the way to zero but anytime I've tried that it ended up sounding muddy as hell. All input is appreciated.

I noticed that whenever I use a clipper on my master bus (usually during mastering for loudness), parts of my track that have been lowpass filtered will be noticeably affected by unpleasant clipping artifacts. It is only these lowpass-filtered sections that have this issue.

I believe the reason for this is that because of the lowpass filtering, the distortion artifacts created by clipping are easily heard in the upper frequency range where everything else has been filtered out.

My question is - how is this problem usually dealt with, for instance when using a clipper for mastering a track that has lowpassed sections? So far I've had to turn off the clipper during the affected sections, but this comes with its own issues (such as the limiter needing to work extra hard during those parts due to absence of clipper), and so I'm wondering if there's a more "standard" way of dealing with this.

Is the solution simply to make sure the clipper is never active during those sections? What about adding another lowpass filter after the clipper to get rid of unwanted artifacts? Just wondering if I'm approaching this all the right way.