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Arksun · 16th September 2008

Thought this deserved a thread in the Mastering forum section as limiters are a tool used a lot in mastering.

Soo, Voxengo have finally updated their Elephant limiter to ver 3, with a new algorithm type (EL UNI) and much more precise control over how it deals with transients (classic/sharp transient control switch, trans time knob, trans shape knob and an EL Dyn knob to control the amount of temporal masking, whatever that is).

I've always been a fan of Elephants limiting but just wished it could also deliver the kind of transient snappyness that Ozone or the Sonnox Limiters manage to pull off.

I've literally just bought the update to this in the past minute so am only just starting to try it out myself, but am dying to hear what some of the engineers here think of how Elephant sounds now in comparison to the other limiter plugs like Xenon etc...

*edit* initial impressions VERY favourable. Doesn't smear transients half as much as Elephant 2 did using the new EL UNI mode. Comparing to Ozone, Ozone now for the first time makes the soundstage seem a little brittle in comparison to Elephant 3s sound. This is good stuff. uses a hell of a lot more cpu now though if you have 8x oversampling enabled.

(I was going to ressurect the old limiter comparisons with sound thread and apply the processing to the original sample, but the links dont work anymore :( )

16th September 2008	#1
Arksun Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cotswolds, UK Posts: 981 Thread Starter 1 Review written	Voxengo Elephant 3 Thought this deserved a thread in the Mastering forum section as limiters are a tool used a lot in mastering. Soo, Voxengo have finally updated their Elephant limiter to ver 3, with a new algorithm type (EL UNI) and much more precise control over how it deals with transients (classic/sharp transient control switch, trans time knob, trans shape knob and an EL Dyn knob to control the amount of temporal masking, whatever that is). I've always been a fan of Elephants limiting but just wished it could also deliver the kind of transient snappyness that Ozone or the Sonnox Limiters manage to pull off. I've literally just bought the update to this in the past minute so am only just starting to try it out myself, but am dying to hear what some of the engineers here think of how Elephant sounds now in comparison to the other limiter plugs like Xenon etc... edit initial impressions VERY favourable. Doesn't smear transients half as much as Elephant 2 did using the new EL UNI mode. Comparing to Ozone, Ozone now for the first time makes the soundstage seem a little brittle in comparison to Elephant 3s sound. This is good stuff. uses a hell of a lot more cpu now though if you have 8x oversampling enabled. (I was going to ressurect the old limiter comparisons with sound thread and apply the processing to the original sample, but the links dont work anymore :( )