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Originally Posted by Lion  Thanks Brian. I agree with you that any one approach is best, and depend on the source / project / style / client...
I 've seen that a lot of people use clipping or soft sat/limit in the A/D converters... In some case, i personally use the soft limit of my Apogee Rosetta 800 (it's not the best but make a good job for the moment, i will probably move for a Lavry blue AD/DA or other the next month) and then after a digital brickwall limiter (TC BRICKWALL, L2,...) |
A few years ago, I used the Apogee PSX-100 (w/ Big Ben) on many, many masters. I also used the Soft Limit most of the time and found it very useful.
When I decided to upgrade my converters, I still wanted to use a "soft limiter" but wanted it to sound better. I did some research and discovered that the Apogee Soft Limiter was an analog limiter.
I then discovered that none of the high end converters that I was interest in had an analog limiter. They were all digital.
I was just so used to the soft limit that I still really wanted to have one available after ditching the PSX-100 so I looked around and found that Pendulum was about to release an analog peak limiter, the PL2. Greg the designer told me it would be exactly what I was looking for so I put myself on the waiting list and got one of the early units.
I then bought a round trip of Lavry Gold converters. I set up a test so I could A/B the Apogee Soft Limit against the PL2 and it was no contest. The PL2 was much better.
This was a couple of years ago and I still use the PL2 just before the ADC most of the time and seldom use the Lavry Gold SoftSat, although it has been useful once in a while.