What does the Character switch in MLimiterX do?

[owen841130]

The manual states that Crisp provides sharper results with some amount of saturation. However, after performing a harmonic analysis, both Crisp and Clean appear identical. I would like to know what their differences are.

[vectorwarrior]

I was investigating this a while back when I was trying to get the most neutral limiter sound. If i recall correctly, crisp has a different (better for my purposes) soft knee. I was A/B comparing the outputs using a waveform editor and crisp was doing more what I expected. I can't remember exactly though as it was over a year ago.

[MeldaProduction]

Something like that. Clean usually provides less distortion at the expense of slower response. In different cases you want different things. For example modern metal is often processed using a clipper instead of a limiter