On 14/10/2015 6:47 PM, John Williamson wrote:
On 14/10/2015 03:13, Trevor wrote:
On 14/10/2015 7:20 AM, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 2:34:38 PM UTC-4,
wrote:
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Hmmm.. When I limit(flat top) a pure sine wave, even by
just .5dB, it sounds different to me
if you flat top it, then it is not limiting, it is clipping
that is the essesnce of the difference
So you think a limiter cannot cause clipping? I guess you have no idea
what one does then!
Apart from the simplest case of a pair of back to back diodes across the
signal path, a limiter running within its design spec shuold not
noticeably clip the waveform, as they work by reducing the gain in an
amplifier stage according to the input level.
Absolute BS. They work however the operator sets the knobs. BUT the
whole point of a limiter as opposed to a compressor is to catch
unexpected transients, and since the output is finite, at some point it
MAY clip when doing the job it is designed to do! Of course if there are
NO unexpected transients that exceed the knee of the limiter it will not
clip, in which case you probably didn't need it and a compressor would
have done the job better. But in a live situation you don't always know
that. And in a studio I would never use a limiter myself. (as opposed to
a compressor)
And to be clear, just because a single box MAY contain both a compressor
and a limiter, they are still 2 separate processes from a technical
aspect. Many here just don't seem to grasp that.
Trevor.