Still, obvious distortion in the low end. bx_limiter tries to decrease the volume of the signal prior to the jump and does that rather well. It does the volume very well though so if you want to use Waves plugins, 元 is probably a better choice than L2.īx_limiter always distorts the 100 Hz sine, even if enough headroom is present (this was made with the XL overdrive disabled). It has a similar behaviour around the volume jump but seems to do slightly weirder things to the waveform. NUGEN ISL2 is either very clean in "Auto" mode, but with a horribly long (> 1 s) release or. The release is very fast (looks exponential) though. The "Modern" ( ) mode is a little bit dirtier and looks like what the "Transient" mode above is doing. I haven't checked a value other than character 10. The "Analog" ( ) mode is quite clean and only introduces low-end squashing which we've seen before. The "Tube" ( ) mode is probably the cleanest of the three modes but it's so slow, the limiter acts more like a leveler. Ozone 8 also has a "Vintage Limiter" that's also quite capable as a limiter and, in my limited tests, it's probably just as good but easier to use than the Maximizer. You should be using this mode or the modern mode if you want a jumpier release. IRC IV "classic" mode with character at 10. IRC IV "transient" mode with character at 10. IRC IV "transient" mode with character at 0. IRC I and II are useable, for what it's worth.Stay the **** away from IRC III, it's horrible.The "classic" and "modern" settings of IRC IV are good.The IRC IV "transient" mode is absolute garbage and can't be made to not distort.At 0, you basically allow a lot of distortion. It has something to do with the limiter release but any value other than 10 allows for distortion. The "character" control should really be called "distortion" and the range inverted.The Maximizer tries to reduce the volume of the audio prior to the jump, except that it does that for a bit too long.Ozone 8's Maximizer is a bit more complicated so here is a quick summary of my findings: Does not increase the volume so a gain after it is required (weird). The waveform itself looks very good though. Not sure I understand what's going on here. Not bad for something that's around 20 years old. Decreases the volume prior to the volume jump in the 1 kHz and 10 kHz steps. Also reduces the volume of the wave prior to the jump in volume, but better than the SPL.ĭoes some very subtle rounding of the waveform at 100 Hz, introducing odd harmonics. +10 dB is not +10 dBĪlso introduces short-term squashing. Reduces the volume of the wave prior to the jump in volume. Soft/Hard -9 is clean, anything else not so much. Not bad for free, but introduces short-term squashing, traces of aliasing, slow release.ĭidn't really bring the signal up to 0 dBFS, short-term squashing, slow attack and release, slight 3rd harmonic.
![kratos 2 maximizer vs waves l2 ultramaximizer kratos 2 maximizer vs waves l2 ultramaximizer](https://img.wavescdn.com/1lib/images/no-index/logo-policy/waves/logo.png)
Clean without the compressor gain and limiter. Here are the limiters that I have so far:įuzz box. This is what the spectrum should look like: Next, I create a spectrum plot of the signal after limiting to visualize distortion. This is what the signal should look like after limiting: I then applied +10 dB of gain, hoping to see a flat line. I created a simple file that consists of three sine waves (100 Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz) at -10 dBFS and 0 dBFS each. In this thread, I want to find out which digital limiters can actually limit a signal in a clean way. Tl dr Good choices: Limiter No.6 (free, but not the easiest interface), Acon Digital Limiter, Waves 元 (budget choice if it's on a sale sale and you don't push too much low end into it), UAD Precision Limiter, Fabfilter Pro-L2 (if you use the right settings - good luck), IK Multimedia Stealth Limiter (don't push it), Avid Maxim (on the fence due to IMD).
![kratos 2 maximizer vs waves l2 ultramaximizer kratos 2 maximizer vs waves l2 ultramaximizer](https://www.kuassa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Kratos2MaximizerJUCE.png)
wav file in the attachments, run it through your limiter(s) at +10 dB gain and post the resulting WAV file.