Having said that, why do you need to limit a piano performance with 4-6 dB of gain reduction anyway? I'm not being criticial, but actually wondering what application you're doing this for. With a phase conpensated tool like this, the benefits should be even more transparent. I'm speculating that the reason the OP was enjoying the 元 more than the L2 on his piano recording was the main reason multiband tools like this can be cool - you can affect portions of the signal while leaving other sections totally untouched. This is why they've just released an 元LL which is a low latency version of the same plugin but with "minimum phase" crossovers - like the ones in the C4 you would presume. This is surprising because the 元's cross-overs are totally phase compensated - hence its very high latency. I believe there's a test website that visually shows this problem in the 元 in comparison to a couple of other limiters.Īdd the two types of distortion from the 元 and you will get a quite fatiguing sound that might sound slightly louder than the L2 at first but certainly not better. On top of this distortion the 元 has a huge problem with the crossovers between the bands which skew the frequency perception and causes another type of distortion which messes with the coherency of the mix. This is a nasty kind of digital distortion that can sound quite harsh. A lot of people expect the limiter to be the magic bullet that provides all the loudness and don't understand why "it can't take more than 4 dB before it sounds ugly".Īs the 元 is multiband it splits up the bands but you will also get distortion - more often audible in the high frequency bands. It's simply a weak method of getting a loud signal. I would never or very rarely use more than 2-3 dB of GR in the L2 or any other type of limiter in a mastering situation. Remember that getting a loud signal is a sum of many parts - not only the limiter. Since the L2 is a broadband limiter, any part of the frequency range exceeding the threshold will result in gain reduction. This means you're pressing the L2 far too hard, or you should use another type of limiter (and not necessarily the 元). The artifacts you're hearing from the L2 when pressing it hard is a type of distortion, which often happens when the lows kick in. You will quickly grow tired of the 元 artifacts.
You're substituting one kind of problem with another if you listen carefully. I have to disagree that the 元 sounds better than the L2. Obviously everybody has their own subjective experience.
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