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Rick Sutton · 26th April 2005

If you use Apogee soft limit check to see if the threshold is user adjustable. When I traded in my AD500 (which was set for a -4dBfs soft limit threshold) for a new AD1000 I was shocked to hear how different the soft limit was on the new unit. Basically unusable. The new unit was set at -6dBfs threshold and it is way too deep for that limiter. After testing, I found that -3dBfs to be the point at which the AD1000 soft limit is "musical" and handy to have available for some situations.

26th April 2005	#26
Rick Sutton Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2003 Location: Atascadero, CA Posts: 4,054	If you use Apogee soft limit check to see if the threshold is user adjustable. When I traded in my AD500 (which was set for a -4dBfs soft limit threshold) for a new AD1000 I was shocked to hear how different the soft limit was on the new unit. Basically unusable. The new unit was set at -6dBfs threshold and it is way too deep for that limiter. After testing, I found that -3dBfs to be the point at which the AD1000 soft limit is "musical" and handy to have available for some situations.