Brickwall within MXXX

[Annabanna]

I've tried every combination of limiter, dynamics type modules I could find in every way I could think of, but so far, no combination of zero attack, lookahead, infinite ratio, ceiling/threshold is doing it. Often, I'm seeing signal peaks of 4dB or more above the desired ceiling despite all controls resembling full brickwall mode.

If I want to insert a module such that NOTHING passes above a given threshold (with no knee), exactly which module in which configuration can accomplish this?

[jmg8]

Here are the settings I use. As you can see from the image the input is HUGE. However, the output will not exceed 0db.
This is what you want, right?

[Annabanna]

Yeah. Problem is, I've been doing that within MXXX, and it's still not brickwalling. I can measure signal exceeding the ceiling on output.

I will set up a new MXXX instance doing nothing else just to make sure I'm not missing something in the routing of the currently problematic one. I was mid-build when I noticed the issue, so it's not a streamlined test case.

[Annabanna]

Ahhhh... yep.

A buddy of mine is developing a multi-analysis plug, and I had that still activated. Looks like it was having a stroke. Stripping everything down and retesting shows it's not the limiter module at fault.

My fault. Didn't think to check that.