29th August 2005
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Originally Posted by Brad Blackwood IME, yes, it still matters, for two reasons:
1] typically, the tone of the compressor and it's action are still audible unless you are completely killing the track via limiting, and
2] it's rare that processing preceding the limiter doesn't have an effect on the limiter's action. I've rarely found that just strapping a limiter across the mix sounded more like the un-limited mix than a little processing to account for/reduce the side-effects of the limiting. |
100% agreed!
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