Comps and limiters can be set not to work on anything other than peaks. But they might not always be as soft in doing so.On 2004-09-15 23:38, interloper wrote:
Seems like tape is one of the few mediums that softly reduces the transient peaks without reducing the level of everything else in the track like a compressor and even some limiters.
.. best mastering limiter to use after Optimaster?
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You all have forgotten soooooooooooooo many areas of compression / limiting / saturation, I'm disappointed. 
(seriously though, this is a great thread. don't mind the heckler in the cheap seats, keep going please.)
- soft-knee vs. hard-knee compression
- brick wall vs. non-brick-wall limiting
- negative feedback / variable mu compression
- speaker compression
- record player arm compression
- MP3 compression
- lossless ZIP file compression
- SCUBA decompression
- the trash compacter in Star Wars
- tinnitus compression
(seriously though, this is a great thread. don't mind the heckler in the cheap seats, keep going please.)
Jesse, thanks for that link, a lot of great information at that site!
Some further experimentation reveals that you can get an extremely loud signal by placing a cranked BigMuff Pi after your Optimaster. Then you can open this file in Wavelab,etc and use the pen tool to make sure the waveform looks like a giant rectangle, and export to cd.
Some further experimentation reveals that you can get an extremely loud signal by placing a cranked BigMuff Pi after your Optimaster. Then you can open this file in Wavelab,etc and use the pen tool to make sure the waveform looks like a giant rectangle, and export to cd.
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