Four must-know limiter side effects

[@Limit5482]

This channel is by far the best and most real world mastering content. You guys are amazing and thank you from a mastering engineer and also teaching other to hear what they don’t understand

[@Barncore]

Really like this format of video with the examples and the giving the viewer time to figure it out first. Good learning method. Well done!

[@dav]

I’m a complete amateur self learner and based on a bunch of KZbin videos, I just jam a limiter with -0.3db to avoid blowing up the volume bar in the mastering chain. And I feel most of the songs don’t sound quite right no matter how I adjust the rest of the mix. But it is probably what you’ve illustrated in this video, and my random uneducated use of the limiter that causes this. Thank you and I’ll dive deeper into this topic.

[@fghhgdgdggskkk]

delete the limiter from the master channel then. Unless you're specifically learning mastering, you don't need it. Also here's an experiment... make a drum track that clips the master by about 2-3db, export it, reload it into your project and look to see it you can spot clipping on the waveform. Spoiler alert.. you won't. If you can't hear any problems, there aren't any. It doesn't matter what scary colour the meter is lit with.

[@fghhgdgdggskkk]

@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf I like your username

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

If you clip a drum track by 2-3 DB, it’s definitely going to have squashed/squared peaks and will be clearly visible… it also won’t sound good.

[@fghhgdgdggskkk]

@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf Yea, no. Technically if you clip the master, you clip the master... but the level moving into the red is not the same as clipping. Maybe you should just prove it to yourself? Seeing red doesn't = hearing clipping/distortion or there even being any. It means 3 samples out of 48000/96000 a second, were within 0.001db of 0db. This isn't just some wild assertion I thought I'd make up. The master should be ignored by beginners and also assertions that red on the master automatically won't sound good, should be ignored, lest they then worry about red on the master and throw a limiter on everything which in turn makes everything they make sound awful. Just ignore the master and only address audible problems, not visual make believe one's. If it's red and it sounds fine, it is fine.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

What you typed did nothing to disprove my post.

[@Owl-qh2rh]

Very cool! And concise! Very useful having the visual there as well.. THANK YOU 🙏🕊️✨

[@Petch85]

This was actually so helpful. Thanks. Also it is a super short video that easily can be sheard. It might have been helpful to show a simple limiter plugin and show the changes made, while listening to the difference. For beginners that have not used limiters a lot. I know this channel focuses on mastering, thus fixing small mistakes is a big part of it. But a video on how to tell that your mix could benefit from using a limiter would also be a helpful video.

[@dagovevareberg]

Big thanks for this useful pack of tips, definitely learned something new! Wish: It would be great to see how you would tweak the look ahead in the first example to get rid of the distortion and also in the other examples. But very useful that you categorized the different types of problems. Thanks again 🙏

[@jamisondonald384]

I love this channel so damn much

[@daniel_dumile]

I've always found it difficult to grasp limiting as a compressor or even the implications of compression itself. You're trained as a newbie as something that makes it louder but the risks are never really communicated well. The main one I've heard is it could kill you low end. This has been useful

[@MR_Cellarpop]

Thanks! Best/Mathias

[@clinchedflo]

I love that. Thanks and thanks to my headphones too 😊

[@andersjanocha6960]

Many thanks for all the useful information and tips.

[@michaeltablet8577]

Thank you very much!

[@Genital.Wartzenegger]

Great vid

[@philippgrunert8776]

This makes me want to not use my limiter