Best limiter

[babyslick]

Surprized to not see many mentions of Ozone maximizer

[Aloysius]

There is no best imho. It depends on the material you are working with. Sometimes Pro-L2 is good. Sometimes Elephant is better.

[jariya]

I'm not certain which new limiter plugin the "gurus" were referring to, but the following could be of interest to you: Cedar Audio's APEX, and Naturl Audo's AL-1. Both are priced above the $200 mark. Cedar Apex is now available; the latter is still in Beta, but it is available to demo and even purchase!

[BCollins]

No. Before it gets out of hand and speculations start flying. It has nothing to do with FabFilter.

I'm not certain which new limiter plugin the "gurus" were referring to, but the following could be of interest to you: Cedar Audio's APEX, and Naturl Audo's AL-1. Both are priced above the $200 mark. Cedar Apex is now available; the latter is still in Beta, but it is available to demo and even purchase!

Most likely the Naturl Audio AL-1 - it´s crazy good

https://naturl.audio/

[zvenx]

It is probably the Cedar Audio one they were referring to, based on this post:

....BUT I'm 100% positive you'll immediately connect the dots once it's public (which should happen soon). It's not the developper's first rodeo ...

rsp

[Kai Enaki]

While I like my limiters and clippers I'm not paying £199 ($265 my currency) or $229 for them. It's one of the reasons I've stayed away from Leapwing Audio's LimitOne, which is said to outperform DMG Audio's Limitless.

[multree]

Goodhertz VCME Soft Clip is pretty lovely... it has a brick wall limiter included.
VCME itself is also quite nice, it does have some pretty high ratios.

[skarvika]

Another +1 for TDR Limiter 6 GE. You can replace a lot on the master bus with it. The metering is very nice and accurate as well. Can't believe they sometimes put it on sale for $9!

If you have some CPU cycles to spare then TDR Limiter 6 has a lot going for it.

I haven't found it to be too bad when just using it as a clipper/limiter; feeding the clipper into the output limiter does a good enough job and uses less CPU than Pro-L2 or Smart:limit.

[Agg]

Best limiter imho is a clipper with a very good balanced mix

A brickwall isp limiter is for the master Bus.

This is optional too lol. It's a standard procedure in some of the harsher "nerdy engineering" genres to never limit the final mix. They clip the master already during mixing, and work backwards if something sounds too distorted.

[ispot]

if you want something spectral like LimitOne look into Newfangled Elevate, it's a lot cheaper on sale.

personally i bought into AL-1 because when it works it sounds great (also i do quite a lot of mastering so i don't skimp on limiters). but it's a picky limiter imho, goes into saturation pretty unpredictable. i rotate between Pro-L2, limitless, AL-1 and Elevate

While I like my limiters and clippers I'm not paying £199 ($265 my currency) or $229 for them. It's one of the reasons I've stayed away from Leapwing Audio's LimitOne, which is said to outperform DMG Audio's Limitless.

[skarvika]

As far as clippers go, I really like Decap's Knock Clipper. It's very intuitive to use, auto-clips at 0db, barely uses any CPU and you have to really drive into it to get audible distortion; though you can still absolutely mangle it if you drive it hard into the soft clipper.

[Cuauhtli]

I don't know how common this is for others, but I use my limiter (L2) as a metering tool to see if I need to EQ something. Might be something for Fabfilter, or anyone else for that matter, to expand on. Other than that it just sits there at -1db for good measure.

Same here.

[Kai Enaki]

if you want something spectral like LimitOne look into Newfangled Elevate, it's a lot cheaper on sale.

personally i bought into AL-1 because when it works it sounds great (also i do quite a lot of mastering so i don't skimp on limiters). but it's a picky limiter imho, goes into saturation pretty unpredictable. i rotate between Pro-L2, limitless, AL-1 and Elevate

While I like my limiters and clippers I'm not paying £199 ($265 my currency) or $229 for them. It's one of the reasons I've stayed away from Leapwing Audio's LimitOne, which is said to outperform DMG Audio's Limitless.

I grabbed a copy of Elevate when it released. Late 2017 if memory serves. Remember thinking they were ahead of the times. Looking at how long it took other industry players to catch up, they were.

[mr4ffe]

Has anyone tried the free Glow Shrimp Limiter? It's supposed to be more transparent than a lot of commercial limiters.

[Download SOphist]

Has anyone tried the free Glow Shrimp Limiter? It's supposed to be more transparent than a lot of commercial limiters.

I´d sure like to try it but the download (Mac version) just gives me a series of alias that don´t take me anywhere