On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:46:03AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't know the TAP limiter. But whats bad with Steve Harris Fast Look > Ahead Limiter? It's one of the best limiters I know Indeed it works well. > and btw. any Limiter is useless in the master bus. You may enjoy Steve Jobs being dead, and maybe Gates and Merkel even more when that happens, but none of them would produce such gratituous nonsense as what you write above. In fact the only place where you want a limiter that acts on the actual peaks, and in the way a lookahead limiter does it, is at the output of the master bus, just before you convert to a fixed bit size (file or soundcard). > There's enough headroom to ban a limiter, assumed > the basic mixing is ok. Almost all of my recording is 'classical' music which does not require high average level or invasive compression. But even using conservative average levels (mostly EBU loudness based these days), that doean't mean that you can't get a signal that peaks above 0 dB. It may happen just 0.01% of the time, but it happens. And such short peaks are no good reason to lower the average level, and limiting them to avoid clipping is completely transparent, so I always use a limiter in the master bus. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
