The Basics: Newcomer with a unique architecture that focuses on musicality, $229.
The Apps: Okay, mastering engineers, who wants another limiter? Still open to try one? If loudness-wars fatigue has got you down, you’re prime to audition (for 30 days at least) this unique new limiter that does not utilize lookahead, or rely on oversampling (although it’s offered), or employ clipping/wave-shaping/brick-walling or traditional fixed attack/release.
It does have multiple detection modes, two Envelope controls (raised-cosine or smoothstep, affecting tightness/looseness), an adjustable buffer (window) for the gain reduction envelope, the most detailed and variable control of stereo linking I’ve ever seen, and an Optimizer feature that lifts level that falls below a lowish threshold (upward compression).
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Yes, that’s a lot of decisions to make, but once you’re there, you’ll find limiting as clean or cleaner than anything out there today, with a non-collapsing image stability that retains mid-power during heavy activity in the sides, and a retention of bottom end, that is likely the best available today.
