[Darius van H]

If you want over-loud, you should also try the Prismsound Overkillers....won't work on everything but could be a useful tool.

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

Instead I'd like to have a high quality analog peak limiter so I can distribute the limiting duties to both the analog limiter and some to the A/D clipping, but avoiding the digital distortion at the A/D clipping stage.

Generally speaking, analog limiting will involve adding some kind of distortion........so it's a question of whether you prefer (analog limiting) distortion to the less punchy (but cleaner) digital look ahead variety......like i said, different situations will call for different aproaches.