Limiter

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Key Features:

• Smart loudness analysis that gives gain suggestions specific to your audio.
• Attack analysis to retain punch and dynamics.
• Link analysis to optimise channel linking based on the stereo correlation of your song.
• Unique limiting algorithm for cleaner, louder mastering.
• Effectively control true peaks, no matter how loud you go.
• NRG 'harmonic distortion' input gain for more perceived loudness.
• PCH ' transient enhancer' input gain to inject more punch during limiting.
• Dynamic range, LUFS and dBTP meters, with target ranges.

Overview:

Don't let bad limiter settings un-do hours of hard mixing work... LIMITER is a great-sounding, smart mastering plugin that analyses your audio and suggests the best settings for your music. Avoid the hassle and create incredible sounding masters in less time with LIMITER.

Problem Solved: Bad limiter settings can un-do hours of hard mixing work. Our plugin LIMITER analyzes your music to help you dial in the best settings to master your audio, whether you're shooting for a super-loud master, or optimizing your audio for streaming.

Get Started: Load up an instance of LIMITER on your master channel and select your preset (i.e Loud, Spotify, Apple Music, etc). Monitor the loudest section of your track, and click analyze. You'll see a target range on the input gain slider showing you what gain adjustment is needed to achieve your sonic goal. You'll also see target arrows on the other controls to help you optimize your sound.

Highlight 1: You can dial in rich harmonic distortion using the NRG slider, and enhance your transients with the PCH slider. This drives more perceived loudness and punch to help mitigate the effects of limiting.

Highlight 2: Great sounding limiting that gives you incredible transparency and clarity (especially in the low-end), even when mastering loud.

Quick Start Guide

Step 1.
Load up an instance of LIMITER on your master channel and select your preset, such as Loud, Spotify, or Apple Music.

Step 2.
Monitor the loudest section of your track, and click analyze.

You'll see a target range highlighted on the input gain slider showing you what gain adjustment is suggested to achieve your sonic goal.

You'll also see target arrows on the attack, release, link and ceiling knobs, helping you optimize those settings to suit your music.

Step 3.
Set the gain slider¹ within the highlighted target range, then adjust the attack², link³, and ceiling⁴ knobs to match the suggestions based on LIMITERs analysis.

We recommend leaving 'Release' on auto for the most musical result.

Hear The Difference
LIMITER gives your masters improved clarity in the low-end compared to other limiters.

When running a 100Hz sine wave through LIMITER, a market leading limiter, and a €299 limiter, we can see that Mastering The Mix's LIMITER produces considerably less harmonic distortion. In this test the harmonic distortion was 20dB to 40dB less, giving an audibly cleaner sound.