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Originally Posted by kjg  Last time I tried Elephant, it was not bit transparent when not in GR. A null test showed so signal at around -60dBFS if I recall correctly. So I uninstalled it and forgot about it. Is this resolved in version 3 Arksun?
Regards,
kjg |
There are a few possibilities why this is the case:
1) Your DAW does not have latency compensation which resulted in failed null test
2) You forgot the dither or DC filter on while doing the null test
3) You had oversampling on (some presets have this on by default)
4) There was a bug that I've never encountered before (I just tried v2 and it is 100% bit transparent)
In short, ever since version 1.0 Elephant has always been completely bit transparent, that is it completely nulls with the original signal when no gain reduction is happening.
Version 3.0 sounds awesome and is very much better sounding than Elephant 2.0 (which was already fantastic) and thus puts it in a league of it's own, at least in my opinion. As a reference I have tried these following limiters: iZotope Ozone (my former favorite), Sonnox Limiter, Waves L1/L2 and L3 (yuck!), Image Line Maximus, Buzz Room LM1, TBT Pocket limiter and his other limiters (can't remember names now) and finally I've compared it against purely clipping a high-end (Prism) DA stage and GClip.
In my opinion Elephant is the winner of this bunch (try the Master Punch preset, works well on lots of material if you need it loud). However, I do prefer a combination of Elephant 3.0 and clipping the Prism converters.
Cheers!
bManic