Great plug, my contribute.

http://www.giovannivecchio.com/gts-39.htm

Bump!

I bought this limiter yesterday and I have a few qestions since there's no manual.

1. What does the side-eq exactly do? Is it a high pass filter for the limiter input?
2. What's the difference between eq1 and eq2?

Greetz,
manducator

The sidechain filter is a low shelf attenuating the low frequencies.
EQ1 is lower (the "knee" is around 150Hz)
EQ2 is higher (around 250Hz)

Ah ok, that makes sense!

Loving GTS-39 so far. I was about to buy the new IK Mutimedia White 2A Leveling Amplifier but then someone suggested this as an alternative. For the same price as the 2A I was able to buy GTS-39, StripBus and The roundtone/ presence bundle. Well worth it.

I have tried GTS-39 on a few things including a piano part with roundtone before it in my FX chain, they both really brought the piano to life.

However, using it in Cubase 6 64bit the CPU hit is quite substantial! I removed all instances of it from my project and my CPU meter dropped instantly.

As a result I have decided I will wait to use GTS-39 until the mixing stage after I have bounced all my parts to audio. Not really a big deal as I should focus on songwriting anyway but if you could lower the CPU hit in a future version that would be great.

Thans Lotus

The new version is a lot lighter on cpu

Oh great thanks!
When will the update be released?

It needs just some testing. It could be released in some days, even though we have so much work to be done we are looking slow...

Ok quintosardo thank you, I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

hey quint i bought this today and your reverb bundle i sent you a email with my info and what kind i need please send em soon cant wait to hear them out heard great things about em

whyone have settings for this to limit i love this thing and want to try it out as a limiter you know

I do not quite get that question. It is a Limiting Compressor, which is akin to an 1176 Limiting Amplifier. The problem is that unlike the 1176, GTS-39 doesn't have the ability to control the attack time. But with the ability to control hold and release times it is pretty easy to get pretty smooth compression from it. Now, as a limiter GTS-39 is no brickwall. It gives and can get into straight distortion if you're not careful in how you push it. Then again an 1176 isn't going to limit a signal either.

What I have found is that depending on how GTS-39 is used is the key. If barely touched it breaks the sound up just a tiny bit, especially highly transient material i.e. drums. When I say barely touched I mean like the needle barely moves. Sometimes that is exactly what you want. Now, my typical usage for it is on bass or toms. Sometimes I'll throw it on a parallel chain to vocals or such. But what I do is I purposefully drive it hard. I will try and get 15 - 20dB of GR going on. Then the hold & release need to be set. At this point there really are no dynamics. Solid like a rock. Individually the elements have some saturation/distortion on them. But in a full mix it just sounds wonderful. I don't really consider this much of a compressor or limiter or a limiting compressor. IMO, it is more of a saturation device that happens to be a killer compressor

cool thanks for the info i have been using it when i have time since i asked and i got the hang of it but thanks for the info

GTS39 has serious issues in Reaper, you can turn the input dial all the way up to about 9.999999999, but as soon as it hits 10, bam Reaper explodes in a mess of CPU overload, also the side eq dial makes strange buffering type noise
This is the 32 bit version by the way