Then again, a client on a mastering job when I blind test A/Bed 3 limiters for him chose MultiLimit as his preference. The monitoring is also not ideal, the gain reduction meter goes from 0 to 36dB in equal scale, which is a pita because almost everything is going to be in the 0-8dB range and anything less than 3dB gain reduction doesn't even seem to show on the meter and the scale is so small, you can't really tell if it's 2dB GR or 4dB GR happening. Manley Variable Mu® Limiter Compressor (UAD) Limiting: Limitless by DMG Audio FabFilter Pro-L 2 TDR Limiter 6 - Gentleman’s Edition Sonnox Oxford Limiter v2 Character/Specialty: Sonnox Oxford Inflator Soothe 2 by Oeksound Spiff by Oeksound Ampex ATR-102 (UAD) Sonnox Oxford SurpEsser CenterOne by Leapwing Audio StageOne by. The Sonalksis plugins suffer from not having oversampling, they are actually pretty transparent if you're not pushing them hard and have a longer release time and smoothing at least 67% but are less transparent when pushed harder. I wonder if UAD manages to make business out of their non proprietary. Half the price for exactly the same soft. The threshold sets both the point where limiting begins and the output for the plugin. Inflator for 30EUR, its your time Wanted to get the UAD version, but never made it bellow 80EUR. It’s also a little expensive and is typical 264 when not on sale. Elephants' oversampling at 4 and 8 times does a great job on preventing intersample peaks. The Sonnox Oxford Limiter has a fantastic sound, but can be a little convoluted in its design. If you want 8x oversampling in Elephant, then audition the material with 2x on and just change it to 8x on rendering.
4x oversampling is more than enough really. Xenon is my #2 limiter and useful in certain situations, but I use it only about 20-25% of the time in preference to Elephant 3.Ĩx oversampling is a CPU killer and only to be used for 'offline' type usage.
Uad precision limiter or sonnox oxford pro#
I demoed Pro L and was impressed with it, but not enough to shell out money on it given I already own a couple of others, including Elephant.Įlephant can be extremely transparent too, depending on the algorithm and release time you select. Since the Precision Limiter is a colorless, transparent mastering. Sonalksis Maxlimit and Multilimit sound good also,but i found them to add too much colour to my taste,and not as transparent as Ozone 4 or Elephant.but hey,sometimes adding colour just works. 4 user reviews on Universal Audio Precision Limiter. They both sound better and more transparent than any Waves limiter i've ever heard. Voxengo Elephant sounds even better,especially with the oversampling(8x kills my cpu however).it sounds a bit more detailed than Ozone 4's limiter in my experience when demoeing it.if i didn't have Ozone 4,i would most definitely have bought this baby. I use Ozone 4's limiter (with the "intelligent 2" algorithm).to me it's one of the best sounding i ever worked with or 's really transparent.but i only use it very gently,as i like things to stay dynamic in nature.if you push it too hard you get horrible pumping though(which all limiters at some point will do when pushed too hard,but that's another subject). Simbosan wrote:How does the Ozone limiter compare with the ones mentioned, crap, meh, bearable, good, bwilliant! ?