Best brick wall limiter VST MAC and PC?

[hibidy]

Is it useful for tracks as well as mastering, or does it have the latency/cpu problems of most other mastering solutions?

Well, it's only a problem if mastering tools are used for mixing, really. There are so many tracking compressor/limiter plugs that it doesn't seem necessary to try and use mastering tools for this purpose. I mean, the built in latency is what makes the mastering plugs work for their intended purpose.

And you can quote me.

I just did!

This IS the best mac/pc vst brickwall limiter thread. BW limiting is used in many facets (at least I tend to) so it's just trying to get the "scoop"

[hibidy]

That's a tough call... What works for me is often guaranteed not to work for anyone else.

What makes Alchemist golden (for everything... individual tracks, mixing, mastering) is the surgical control over envelope shape and how/when each component of the processors works with each other. It's basically a multi-band version Solera with some of the most beautiful visual feedback I've seen (comparable to Ozone or APEQ. So, for each frequency band you have a compressor, expander, dcompressor and dexpander each have an upper and lower threshold as well as normal compressor/expander controls. The envelope controls are per band and if I remember right (I'm not at production computer) there is a pre-emphasis eq per band as well.

I've never been able to get results I was happy with out of Ozone, so I can't comment on that one. I think that's a personal problem though because I have a coworker that can work miracles with it. I still use CQ1 and ML4000 4 though, it just depends on what the situation calls for.

Thanks!

That's what I'm afraid of, you used the word "surgical" The idea that is going to come in to focus (er, no pun intended) instead of broad strokes as I'm limited (another not intended) to right now.

Oh one more thing....is the cpu deadly? Or acceptable considering (i.e. the more stuff you use, the more it eats, etc)

I'll stop being a p.....y and demo it in the next couple of months. I want to make sure ozone 4 is out though.....

[justin3am]

Yeah, that term "surgical" is really the key word for all of their products.
The CPU usage isn't too deadly considering that most people that use it can also afford a pretty fast machine.

Ozone 4 should be out soon. I don't think I can say much more than that (wink, wink, say-no-more).

[bmanic]

I dont like the Voxengo's interface or how the knobs handle.

Yeah, that's a serious problem and can be bad for your audio.

Cheers!
bManic