But if you’re a less experienced engineer working with sources that could be drastically different in terms of volume, frequency content, and dynamic range every time, then there is no settings sweet spot. Some mixing engineers may say something like “oh I like the the soft clip saturation around 10%” but they are making sure that the level going into the plugin is always the same or at least always clipping the transients around the same amount to get that desired effect. Every source material will be different and will require a different treatment.
It should be noted that there is no “sweet spot” in a plugin ever. But again if you push anything too hard it won’t sound good. When you have the clip button off it will technically let you pass the digital 0dB without actually clipping in your DAW. If you push it too hard it will sound shit though. When the clip button is engaged you can drive it but it will never pass the digital 0dB. The Inflator should be considered similar to when mixing/mastering engineers are purposely clipping very high end AD/DA converters to get the extra harmonics and perceived loudness out of a track. IMO David is the best teacher on YouTube, and he does a lot of work in modern genres too even though he looks like a really metal guy. This video will help you understand it a lot more. Yeah it’s a super magical plugin, and you’ll get a lot of use out of it. The designer says its not made to be used on the master bus but it just works sometimes.Īdobe audition 1.5 limiter and normalizer - this is kind of a funny one as it's super old and just built in to audition, but I sometimes get better results with it over any of the newer and much more expensive options. Definitely try this one out if you can.īoz big clipper - still new to me but I got it based on some YouTube shootout I saw where it held up or beat out some of the more well known options on the mastering bus. It also add a certain modern sheen and has transient enhancing options that others don't have built in.įlatline - marketed as a clipper but works well as a limiter sometimes and can do very transparent at the softest clip settings or do the opposite as well. Izotope 9 maximizer - iZotope gets grief as an amateur program sometimes in forums like these but I think the algorithms are all pretty solid. Newer ones seem to stay truer to the source material but elephant just does something I like. Voxengo elephant: an older one but still pretty good in my book. Wish it were more musical and enhancing sometimes.
Weiss mm-1: sounds good but is changing the sound overall which may not be what you're looking forĭMG Limitless: more on the transparent side but sometimes to a fault. I tried to include some honest feedback on them but really any of them should work well for you: Here are some limiters for the master bus I like (and I have tried around 30 or so).
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