I've never known Matt to fudge his actual feelings on anything in a biased way...he's a pretty straight shooter and people can even take some of what he says as abrasive, but I'd much rather have the real deal over the glossed over glitter bombed fairy dusted "infomercials" that most people put out as tutorials and reviews.
I'll be addressing this tomorrow in Philosophy Phriday, but basically my take is this - first, I don't really talk about stuff I don't like, because I like to show technique even with product demos and I can't really show technique with something I don't feel that can do the job. Second, there isn't a check big enough to make me compromise my integrity. I don't think it's right and I also don't think it's good for business in the long run. My main goal from a monetary point of view is for people to purchase my courses or join my subscription site and the only way you're doing that is if you trust me.
totally not audio related, but that shirt looks great in the frame (and surrounding background) and also makes your skin tones look really warm...not sure if you purposefully graded it to look that way, but either way, I figured I'd mention it.
To be honest i'll use it like a color tool, especially with the inflator parameter. It sounds to me a little bit closer to the Ozone 10 maximizer clipper. More weight on the low end and a bit of saturation on the entire spectrum. Thanks Matthew !
I've been using it a lot on drums/drum bus since I got it. I also started using the Smart:Limit a bit more, and now that I'm getting it down I can get better results than Pro-L2, but I have to tweak it a little longer to do it.
Would he use of this limiter on kick be a better or alternate way of doing the compression and clipping technique you mentioned in your wonderful mixing low end course you gifted us with?
I'm not sure yet - it's a very similar concept. My initial feeling is that I really like it on drums. Just used it on snare in a mix today and really liked the results (as did the client). I'm not sure if it's necessarily "better" or if it's just "new" - sometimes new feels better. But I also like the bit of pumping action that I get from using inflate on loops.
Thank you for the video...am curious, what monitors are you using and are there any sub 1000USD monitors that you would recommend (if you have already treated your room as much as you can)
one of the engineers in our facility is looking at purchasing and trying out some Kali's....he brought them to my attention a few days ago and after some poking around... I gotta say...for the price they seem pretty insanely linear!
My primary near fields are PMC tb2s+ w/Bryston 4BSST, and then I use VSX headphones to cross reference. When your room is treated as best as you can you get a little more flexibility with monitors. Cheaper monitors perform better. I believe there are some active Quested monitors that are under 1k/pair - I've never heard anything from them I didn't like.
Not sure about Pure:Limit but the full Smart:Limit manual says this: "smart:limt is based on a quite complex (and unique) multi-stage limiting process. Different stages are running at different resolutions - so listing a single oversampling factor simply doesn’t really make sense for this new design. So while there’s no single reference value to calm your mind, rest assured that smart:limit is using high-resolution oversampling throughout the whole limiting chain where necessary." Cheers!
Oversampling and True Peak are basically doing the same thing to some degree. They're both interpolating the wave at a higher resolution to catch the "inter-sample peaks". In my opinion dither also isn't always a necessary tool in 32 bit audio & could just be added with alternate means if needed (because some material really does need it from analog domain). I think Sonible uses their own methods for sampling the audio for limiting (like the other person noted here). So I think overall, the needs of modern limiting are being considered. But a plugin like this seems most catered to producers & mixing engineers that want to give clients a listen to the material at commercial level.
No to dithering and true peak, can't say I'm certain about the oversampling but based on the clarity of the transients I would guess there's some kind of internal oversampling automatically engaged.
