Digital Limiters - recommendations?

[jonathansorensen]

Thanks everybody for the great suggestions. I'm demoing about 5 limiters now and I'll get back on what I end up choosing.


Best,
JS

here's the update. I've been experimenting with mastering through the Distressor and the A-Designs Hammer and I don't think I'm going to spend any money on a plugin limiter. I have everything I need except a little more expertise. I'm really enjoying this year because every time I think I might need to spend more money, I find I really have everything I need for quite a while.

Thanks everyone for the great suggestions.

Best,
Jon

[mojobone]

Uh, yeah, if you have two Distressor channels with "British" mode, you won't need very much else, but Waves' "lookahead" is a nice addition. Also, I just now recall, there's a Roger Nichols software compressor that has a few unique tricks, (multiple thresholds/ratios for the same program material, for one-expanding the middle of the dynamic range while compressing the peaks, for example) but I'd say you're pretty well covered. The rest of the differences mainly come down to transformers, which you could add or subtract at the preamp stage.

[Dwayne Russell]

If you have powercore then the MD 3 is a no brainer. It is simple the best!

I dont have powercore at home and there I use the Sony Oxford. The Flux is good too.

[MikeShrout]

Waves L3 all day... Just my personal opinion... Its the cleanest I've heard on a mix...

[jonathansorensen]

After a couple of weeks, I found the Sonnox was the easiest to use and the most difficult to *&$** up with. But what I'd really like to do is send off batches to a real mastering engineer.


JS

[jonathansorensen]

After a couple of weeks, I found the Sonnox was the easiest to use and the most difficult to *&$** up with. But what I'd really like to do is send off batches to a real mastering engineer.


JS

I am missing the sonnox . . . I'm going to get it sooner or later.

JS