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Maxwell Smart

Mastering Limiter Plugin by Lively Audio
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Maxwell Smart
Maxwell Smart by Lively Audio is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin for Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin.
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Maxwell Smart is a transparent true peak limiter / loudness maximizer with look-ahead. It's designed to boost the overall loudness while maintaining transients without audible distortion. Maxwell Smart also has 4x ISP (inter-sample peak) detection to tame the 'invisible' peaks between regular sample peaks.

Features:

  • Transparent true peak limiter / loudness maximizer with look-ahead.
  • Simple but effective controls to fluently adjust the sound.
  • 4x Inter-Sample Peak (ISP) detection, with the same efficiency as 4x linear phase oversampling, but without any of the common downsides, such as additional sound artifacts or heavy CPU-load.
  • Compliant with the latest international recommendations for true peak detection, such as those described in ITU-R BS.1770-4.
  • 5ms latency (compensated).
  • Support for all sample rates between 8kHz - 384kHz.
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Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 5.00 from 1 review
Maxwell Smart

Reviewed By Blindabuser [all]
January 7th, 2023
Version reviewed: 3 on Windows

This is a very nice free limiter, works as intended and it's very easy to use. Highly suggested.

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Comments & Discussion for Lively Audio Maxwell Smart

Discussion
Discussion: Active
cprompt
cprompt
12 March 2013 at 10:48am

I love this limiter - I blind-tested it against Toneboosters Barricade and Kjaerhaus Clasic Limiter and this was the most transparent, most open and most musical limiter. Limiter No 6 is too complex to use effectively, and others I tried had too much clipping. Maxwell Smart has no clipping, it just rounds off the transients whilst letting everything else through untouched.

No flashy UI, no VU meters, no waveforms, nothing... it has to be the most boring plugin ever... except that it just works, even when I leave the two controls at their defaults (which I do). Love it, highly recommended.

LivelyAudio
LivelyAudio
24 June 2014 at 11:28am

Thank you so much! Maxwell Smart has been recently updated to v2, which hopefully reduces the boringness :). More details above.

cprompt
cprompt
24 June 2014 at 8:35pm

Cool! Looking forward to trying this later. Thanks.

n0j0e
n0j0e
18 June 2014 at 9:24am

...but no 64-Bit Plugin support! :(.

LivelyAudio
LivelyAudio
24 June 2014 at 11:14am

Support for 64-bit on Windows and OS X are definately on our roadmap. :)

CJoe78
CJoe78
14 November 2014 at 11:27am

It works well, if you'll first use TLs Maximizer (The old free one), and after that Maxwell Smart with ceiling for your final master output.

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