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Originally Posted by uncajesse  If you need to limit after you clip, then you're not really clipping, you're probably saturating or just distorting. Actual clipping (including in the analog domain) has relatively perfect peak control, and limiting after-wards will end up clipping the edges of the clipping which can sound really bad, and in some cases you can lose loudness too.
But yeah, limiting heavily saturated or "pleasantly" distorted audio is something else. If you gain peak volume from limiting "clipped" audio, then your "limiter" is a better clipper than your "clipper".  |
I don't really follow your point, you are suggesting you can only have one end limiter? it's perfectly possible to run two limiters, two clippers, one of each etc.
I am more interested in the sonic results of performing the operation this way round, Limit -> Clip is possibly a more logic order, and from my experiments had good results with the thread topic!
Joe @ Subsequent