[Alécio Costa]

HI,
I have a client who also masters with a "top" brazilian mastering engineer in Brazil. (When budget is fine...)

He commented that whenever he leaves Pro Tools HD to go into outboard analog gear ( Manley, Crane) he always passes the audio into a plugin (L2 probably) because analog systems do not respond properly to quick peaks.

Am I missing something in this? As far as I know you should only peak limit at the very last stage so as to not lose transparency and in a certain way, avoid reducing the dynamic range (true full wordlenght) drastically beforehand.

Thanks for any explanations of yours in advance.