I know I've got an audio plugin (AU/VST) called Bit Shift Gain, because it applies the exact gain changes required to just bit-shift the exponent of the floatin

I know I've got an audio plugin (AU/VST) called Bit Shift Gain, because it applies the exact gain changes required to just bit-shift the exponent of the floating point value one bit without touching the mantissa. It's a handy plugin for clean gain changes (completely reversible without loss so long as you're gain boosting, not clipping, and then cutting again). I can't say its name on youtube on my own channel, 'cos YouTube thinks I'm saying something else. (not sure what would happen if I kept on doing it. Maybe they would start sending me apprentice Nazi traffic :D )