Mastering Question: The Best Limiter: Final Limitation:

And that being said,

You can try the new "Crushificator 3000" Available where overcompressed music is sold,worldwide!!!

Cheers

sonalksis.

Nomad Factory Blue Tubes bundle. Not free,but then again,you want good stuff,it won't be free...

Well, for your own mixes, bounce down to 24bit - WITHOUT a limiter ! Don't worry about volume, worry about a great mix.
If you use compression on your stereo bus, fine. If it sounds good...if not, great !That's the one to send to mastering, if you're doing that. The real mastering guys..well...um, they'll use compression, limiting and in some cases ( don't say I told ya ) A/D clipping to get those insanely loud masters.


For listening copies, or if you have to self master on your DAW for your client, A&R, whatever - reimport the nice uncrushed 24 bit mix and use the waves L2, L3 ( more transparent IMHO ), or... the roger nichols one.

I believe you will like this one

Free!!


http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/W1LimiterX/

how do i install this? doesn't it have to be an audio component? (i'm running le7, not lp7 - is that the problem?)

It goes in

/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components

And the winner is...

SONY OXFORD LIMITER

It won't make song better if the mix itself isn't good enough,
but
it is the best Limiter available in AU format, period 😉

All Limiters are adding artefacts, distorting signal etc. when you want to push the overall volume up. The question is "when?" and "how much?".

Personally I never liked Logic's Adaptive Limiter. To me it seems that it flats the program completly - makes it 2D instead of keeping 3D.

Waves L2 & L3. Hmmmm, yes, better, but not much. Not THAAAAAAT much :))

Than UAD-1 Mastering (Precision) Limiter.
Now THIS is REALLY better! To my ears more transparent and invisible than Waves stuff.

Also TC Electronics have Limiter plugin for their Powercore systems.

But Sonnox Limiter is another league.