Best Limiter Plugin

Best Limiter Plugin for Mastering. In This Ableton Live Tutorial I discuss my favorite 4 limiters for mastering. This is not a tutorial on how to master, but you will learn how to use a limiter for loudness and clarity in your mixes. I have mixing tutorials, mastering tutorials, and other plugin reviews linked below! The plugins i review are Camel Crusher - Free FabFliter Pro L - $200 Slate Digital FG-X - $100 UAD Precision Maximizer - $200 Ableton Limiter Get Whole Loops RAW HITS 2 Hear the finished track from this demo How To Master A Song with Plugins How To Master A Song in Ableton How To Mix Vocals instagram.com/reidstefan twitter.com/reidstefan soundcloud.com/reidstefan facebook.com/reidstefan snapchat: reidstefan.

Hi, I've been researching what plug-in limiter to buy because I need a very high quality and transparent sounding one. My main ones of interest are the Fabfilter Pro-L and Voxengo Elephant, I'm not ME but would really appreciate a mastering engineers opinion on this subject. I produce mostly classical guitar music so transparency is very important and very minimal limiting is what I'm trying to achieve, I would like to reduce the dynamic range to K-14 without noticable artifacts! Would it be a better idea to master a classical guitar album to the K-20?

And also is the -23LUFS too quiet for this style? Has a lot of volume and headroom so I don't always get it loud enough, and it's hard to tell if it's way too quiet or 'just right' because I've not done this before and have lack of experience. Regards, Ben.

I'm not a professional ME but would really appreciate a mastering engineers opinion on this subject. I produce mostly classical guitar music so transparency is very important and very minimal limiting is what I'm trying to achieve, I would like to reduce the dynamic range to K-14 without noticable artifacts! Would it be a better idea to master a classical guitar album to the K-20 standard? And also is the -23LUFS too quiet for this style? My system has a lot of volume and headroom so I don't always get it loud enough, and it's hard to tell if it's way too quiet or 'just right' because I've not done this before and have lack of experience.

Endorphin limiter VST: With Endorphin you have a dual band compressor limiter VST. With nice saturation algo. This VST is still one of the best. The Stealth can also be used in two 'windows' either in IK Multimedia's brilliant TRacks plug-in, which lets user load multiple IK plugins, or as a standalone instance. In my opinion Pro-L by FabFilter is by far the best presented limiter in this list as it doesn't appear to be mimicking anything from the past.

Regards, Ben. If the material is too dynamic, it might help, and I'll often write in volume automation to bring the real quite parts up a bit to where it sounds.

I don't know about K stuff but would just a/b against something you like that's similar in style and genre and get in the ballpark. Getting the obligatory 'Volume is the easy part - and the least important part of the process' thing out of the way. Stairville Led Par 56 Manual. K14 on solo classical guitar is probably going to sound like crap no matter what limiter you're using. Or at least, 'too loud' by comparison. That all said - Elephant isn't a bad place to be. Lots of tweakability under the hood. Download Lagu Radja Wahai Kau Cinta Acoustic more.

I wont be doing it to K-14 now, do you think K-20 would get me in the right ballpark? Also is EBU-R128 -23LUFS too quiet for music? Sorry for all the technical questions.

Either of these is good, as is the Ozone 5 limiter. Pick your poison; ) I like Pro L L2 is a little old skool, but could work too, but ime, isn't as transparent as the limiters mentioned above. If the material is too dynamic, it might help, and I'll often write in volume automation to bring the real quite parts up a bit to where it sounds natural. I don't know about K stuff but would just a/b against something you like that's similar in style and genre and get in the ballpark. GL Hi, I really wish would do automation! Thanks for your advice though, I could use Cubase though, so might do it that way, it's only on a few from the album with much higher crest factors than some of the others, I'm really starting to appreciate how hard it is to master an album though. I like the limiter in Ozone.

Don't laugh, it is very simple and very good. Plus it has a dithering module. What is this K-14/K-20 thing?? It's basically for dynamic range or crest factor of a recording. I haven't read the specs, and I think there's some weighting involved in the process, but basically the number tells you the difference between the loudest peak and the RMS average. I'm thinking even 20 is too small for good solo classical. Isn't the K-24 supposed to be something like for classical broadcast?

And even that is squeezing things a bit. I very much doubt that you will get solo classical guitar (broad generalization, though) to K-20 without destroying it, and you definitely can't do it with limiting alone. You will definitely also need volume automation and/or compression unless you're really willing to compromise your playing technique to remove all of the dynamics that you have (hopefully) worked so hard to develop.