@Medway
something went wrong with you quoting me
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It was not me who said
You make it sound as if all compressors change the sound with harmonics. , I guess it's you
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I was just talking about the Vintage Warmer, which is assumed to compress like an typical overdriven tape recorder does, by manupulating the eq and harmonics.
Other compressors indeed produce a more clean signal, like the Waves R compressor.
About the current subject:
Essentially a compressor changes the continu ratio between different dynamic proportions, while the limiter cut off peaks without changing the remaining dynamic proportions...if it works properly.
As you undoubtly know, a limiter doesn't have a ratio parameter, it just cuts, and therefor indeed could produce some (unwanted) harmonics.
We were talking about the qualities of different limiters, from the perspective of a clean resulting sound, specially concerning the hi freqs.
The Vintage Warmer, though an absolute favorite tool in my setup, can't be seen as an explicite example of this
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Not because it's a bad tool, yet because of its nature
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Agree?
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2004-09-14 22:39 ]</font>