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samsam · Post by **samsam** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:51 am

DDMF No Limits - v nice plug IMO.

TIMT · Post by **TIMT** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:53 am

At this price i'd go for TB Barricade and A.O.M Invisible Limiter. wouldn't kill you to check out Limiter 6 either considering it is free

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:12 pm

Do not forget Maxwell Smart, an excellent free limiter!
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/maxwell ... io/details

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:17 pm

To be sure that the Limiter is blocking out Inter Sample Peaks, I'd put SSL X-ism after the Limiter. If the Limiter is not blocking these peaks, I wouldn't buy it.

It's 32-bit. It's Free. It works.

http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/X-ISM/

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:09 pm

Gaah, I'll be at this all weekend!

Thanks again for all thew suggestions, very appreciated.

dformd · Post by **dformd** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:38 pm

I like Hornet's Magnus.
http://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-magnus/
It's also 40% off right now.

Brother Charles · Post by **Brother Charles** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:00 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:Hands up for TB Barricade! A big brickwall for a small price!

+1
THIS!

The most recent builds of TB Barricade are even more CPU friendly and capable of remaining transparent and dynamic sounding.

Deep Purple · Post by **Deep Purple** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:19 pm

Personally I avoid brickwall limiters - it implies that your levels are all over the place, but you should be able to keep things to good levels without having to limit when you master.

Recording at good levels is a good start point, which is both a function of playing levels and not having input levels too high. If the track has dynamics that need to be tamed, put a compressor on the track.

When you mix you should be able to deal with differences between tracks and at this point you should realize if you need to tweak the compression.

The mixdown shouldn't be too loud. If it's too loud, mix down again with the master pulled down so that peaks don't hit anywhere near 0dB.

If you have recorded, mixed and applied compression to tracks with an ear to producing a good mixdown, you shouldn't need to use a brickwall limiter on the mastering. Some compression is probably a good idea most times, but it should be to apply the final gloss, not to fix the problems that you could have fixed earlier.

fwsuperhero · Post by **fwsuperhero** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 4:22 pm

Maxwell or maxwell smart

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:05 pm

I'd say you can get BX_Limiter from brainworx for about $80 second hand.

It's a very good, very simple limiter and it has that nice XL control which does some kind of enhancement voodoo that sounds very good. No reason you can't use it carefully on the master bus:

http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_limiter

Vladg Limiter No.6 is also very good and it's a freebie but there is a lot there to tweak and you might not like having to learn it.

https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/plugins/limiter6/

Then there is Voxengo Ebuslim
https://www.voxengo.com/product/ebuslim/

I've tried it once and it was good!

Nightpolymath · Post by **Nightpolymath** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:57 am

TIMT wrote:At this price i'd go for TB Barricade and A.O.M Invisible Limiter. wouldn't kill you to check out Limiter 6 either considering it is free

Both very good quality plugins. I would add the Mellowmuse LM1V as well.

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:01 pm

A bit more than $80, maybe too rich for you blood, but the DBX also acts as a very nice limiter...then again it's not a brickwall.

http://www.waves.com/plugins/dbx-160-compressor-limiter

The bx option above is very nice too, I got my eye on it as well. Unless you can find it second hand it will cost you twice as much.

However, keep an eye on this spot, they've always got something useful in sale.
http://www.waves.com/specials

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:24 pm

Aiynzahev wrote:Vladg Limiter No.6 is also very good and it's a freebie but there is a lot there to tweak and you might not like having to learn it.

https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/plugins/limiter6/

Plus it has a clipper built in, among other things. Don't limit what you can get away with clipping

HcDoom · Post by **HcDoom** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:14 pm

TB Barricade, one of the best for sure. Competes easily with much more expensive competition.

Taifunk · Post by **Taifunk** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:19 pm

dformd wrote:I like Hornet's Magnus.
http://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-magnus/
It's also 40% off right now.

+1 Hornet Magnus is really good

Looking for a brickwall limiter for < $80