Limiting/converter soft limiting during mixdown

[Joemamma]

I know an engineer who likes to cut a few dBs on the mix with the Apogee Rosetta 800 soft limiter. He had very good results on his mixes...

How many of you use a limiter/converter like this during mixdown?

What limiter/converter soft limiter would you recommend?

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by Joemamma

I know an engineer who likes to cut a few dBs on the mix with the Apogee Rosetta 800 soft limiter. He had very good results on his mixes...

How many of you use a limiter/converter like this during mixdown?

What limiter/converter soft limiter would you recommend?

Never.

I work to AES-18 so never ever hit a peak. I DO you a lot of mix-buss compression on the garage rock records I mix (my other life is with orchestra) but never ever kill peaks. I leave it for mastering. I consider it pretty bad practise to starp any kind of limiting on a MIX and I would reject a mix that was peaking up at 0 (i farm out a lot of mix work for sync stuff).

So, for me - never!

[Joemamma]

Originally Posted by Joemamma

I know an engineer who likes to cut a few dBs on the mix with the Apogee Rosetta 800 soft limiter. He had very good results on his mixes...

How many of you use a limiter/converter like this during mixdown?

What limiter/converter soft limiter would you recommend?

Does anybody do this?

[Joemamma]

Does anyone like this technique?

[six_wax]

I think the Apogee Soft-Limiting sounds like crap 99% of the time, so no.

[gainreduction]

I mix down to a Rosetta but don't use the soft limiter on it.

But sometimes I do use the soft limiter on the SPL Dynamaxx (with a 160 Hz-ish HPF on the sidechain) on the 2-mix.

But that's a good sounding limiter that I use for the character, not to kill peaks to raise the overall level.