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sweetjesus wrote:

forge wrote:

sporkles wrote: Seconded. I use it on every track.

Jesus - what have you got against dynamics?

to answer the question: Saturator, maybe with soft clip engaged

personally I've gone right off using any kind of magic maximiser and I find if everything is mixed well so that each sound has room to breathe and none of the sounds are fighting each other then you don;t need anything like that

Saturator is great for catching the odd erroneous peak though, with very little colouration IMO

even with great mixing, u still benefit from a perceived loudness boost with a limiter.

a nicer limiter like sonnox will let you boost more before losing dynamics and hearing distortion compared to say Waves L2 which can sound more muddy..

guess it depends on what you're making - I'm a bit more interested in real dynamics these days, not so much into that big club sound

the shoe wrote:there is a new sonalksis one on the way.

Waiting patiently for that myself. UAD Precision Limiter is my next choice.

Free and pretty good, from Buzzroom.

http://www.x-buz.com/BuzMaxi3.html

ChiDJ wrote:WAVES - L3

+1

I never mix without it.

PC only but by Voxengo Elephant 2 for 70 bucks IMHO is the best damned limiter period. It might not have the fanciest GUI but it delivers the goods like a UPS man on a 300% performance bonus.



It can be transparent, pump the crap out of your music or any shade in between. It is far more versatile and cost effective than any Waves product. It also has 4x oversampling that kills intersample peaks that many free limiters (and many paid ones) do not detect and also dithering and dc filtering.

Sonnox mastering limiter is also very good and that bundle as a whole is also more cost efficient and higher quality than Waves (imho) and not subject to the crap WUP policy. And Kjaerhus MPL-1 PRO is also a great limiter but I still say Elephant.

sporkles wrote:

dazzer wrote:Free

http://www.yohng.com/w1limit.html

Seconded. I use it on every track.

+3

Well, most projects.

UAD Precision Maximizer!

YouWaShock!: just turn the knob and presto!