Gain modulation is distortion... compression is a nonlinear process blah blah.Tp3 wrote:If I recall conversation I had with some developer, ALL modern day (prominent) limiters - distort (according to him).camsr wrote:I feel the same way. There is a limit to how much gain of a complex signal can be modulated before changing the sound itself. These days I am more into the idea of limiters distorting, for both tone and loudness. Even then, a limiter which introduces distortion has it's limits, but the result is usually louder.DaveGamble wrote:L3 tries to maximise gain at all costs. Don't do that
IMO, limiters by themselves are - well - limited. the solution is "envelope massaging" through stages of saturation/clipping/limiting.
I hate to sound simple but "modern" limiters usually attempting to do things in the cleanest way possible. So there's no discernable tone to most of them. Which can be a good thing.