You're Using Your Limiter WRONG

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Great info - but lots of studio noise in the recording, and mids causing distortion on my surround speakers

Limiters should not existe, if the behavior of the mases music applied as a competition, which believe loudness is what will make it win the race even destroying transient and harmonics, it’s a cultural thing when today education is not a virtue but is technocratic.

The ratio control

ngl i saw this video an was like oh here we go again but youre right, you are the first person to vocalize to my knowledge how important the release time is. I set my release based on the genre, bpm etc. mostly listening to the song and adjusting the release until it fits and sounds right. like you said, finding the pocket. its not some hard and set rule, its different every time

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This is very interesting in theory but a demo might be illustrative.

Excellent!

release

Ey, why using the Kiis over something like the Dutch & Dutch ? Asking for friend...

I think just throwing your mix into Ozone and following along the usual path does work, and it makes a decent master. But I find there's a lot more care in chipping away at it effect by effect. Soft clip, saturate, filters, regular EQ, dynamic EQ/Compression, and THEN a limiter, it all works together making little 1-2dB adjustments, and you end up with a master that's -10 or -12 LUFS without sounding dynamically compromised.

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I think I inadvertently stumbled upon this when I was messing around with the "Maximizer" in Cubase. With just the limiter it was sounding louder but that's it. With a combo of the maximizer with soft clipping enabled and the limiter with less input gain I was getting the same overall loudness but a much tighter sound, especially on the vocals.

I have learned absolutely nothing. Thank you.

Oversampling button

i use TDR limiter 6 GE most of the time. I think it's the default preset to have comp -> clipper -> limiter and i always got results i'm happy with.

I put limiters on most my individual tracks in a song to "limit" the volume of the track so that the over all / master sound isn't too loud or clipping. But F me right I'm using it wrong.

I've been doing (for zone 3) parallel clip into a full or nearly full second clip, into a lim and then another lim, with the second almost always slower, bot. Seems to work great. Wonder if it could be made even better. Anyone else tried this/do this?

interesting, i usually put tape right before limiting

Very good video. Thanks

This has been one of the best explanations for how important and easy it is to dial in a master chain. Simple and bountiful in information.

is there a pt2 with examples of this technique in action? Watched your perfect compression video and enjoyed it as well.

Really great explanation, and remembering the steps to take in mastering is key, thank you. Looking forward to more content from you 👍

i use 6 L2 instances on the master buss

did u ever create a video of this chain in demo?

I’m so glad that I stumbled upon this video. No frills spills or tricks just precise and to the point clear cut explanations. None of this you’re doing it all wrong bullshit. Everybody’s way is their way or the highway type vlog. You Will are a god sent. Thanks and keep up the great work for the recording community. I did check this method out and gotten some great results although I have been doing my own thing without any tutorials and also gotten good results. I think it’s called trial and error imo. The way you explained it I get more consistency I have to admit. Hey people subscribe this guy gets it.❤

... Wait, are you saying the inflator is a clipper? I thought it was a magic wand that no one was supposed to know what it did? (It's a wave shaper)

You’re a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for taking time to do these videos. They have helped immensely.

Great video, love these

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Traditionally (historically) it was actually: 1/2" or 1/4" tape > NR decode > console with 1 or 2 EQ's, no compression, no limiting > 1/4" (most often) or 1/2" tape. Key to all that (and still) is you make decisions listening from the end of the chain (off-tape), not to a section in isolation.

my answer before watching: headroom

So I need a so called clipper in front of the limiter, right? Does Studio One has something like this?

My whole life's a limiter

You are right !

Is it the gain knob? Jk

Thanks, very good and to the point 👏

The most transparent gain reduction on full spectrum material is hard clipping.

So, this is correct advice, except I use two limiters… the first: 0 look ahead and max attack (preventing the limiting algorithm from engaging), minimum release (to only affect the transients)…

Then use the second limiter as normal.

Does a clipper make sense during the mixing process (before mastering)?

you should give an unedited video version to this class....or a "to make a long story short" version, and a "to make a long story longer" version for the master students of the class

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I mean those equipments that look like video cassette one over the other 😅

I always come back to this video as a reminder for myself! Thank you!

AMEK EQ IS SO GOOD

You just made clippers sound more intriguing to me. I never liked the idea of "clipping" the transients. I can never get my mixes loud enough. Maybe I just need soft clipping before limiting?

Release?

What is pocket?