I just setup my new ARC Studio 4 and I find that the unit clips ridiculously easy. I started out wanting to listen to a song I had been working on and the red clipping light on the unit just glowed the whole time. My session is not clipping in Pro Tools or Ableton.
I then tried just recording one chord from a keyboard, that barely reaches unity gain. - So on one track, one instrument, one chord, never even getting into the yellow - and it clips. I'm assuming I must have a defective unit? There's absolutely no way you could master with this on. I tried it both in Pro Tools and Ableton.
I'm using Windows 10 on a dedicated studio PC. i9 3.60GHz Intel processor, 64 GB of RAM and my interface is a Antelope Goliath.
I've opened a support request, but have not heard back yet.
Thanks for any help you can provide.