Great. I love the discussion about the pro's and con's of various peak limiters. Its like discussing what gun is most suited to shooting oneself in the head.
Sorry for the rant, but today I have again ruined a beautiful recording with a paek limiter, the second this week and it is only wednesday. When the mixing engineer's face turned like he had just bitten into a lemon (and somebody held a plate of shit in front of his face), I knew that I had done the right thing: The clients will love it.
Sorry bro, I know you spend many hours on these mixes to make them dynamic and open sounding, still with plenty of energy -after all it is Punk Rock, but hey who can argue with a client whose reference is something that has been proudly impaled in NYC?
Maybe this is a way out of the loudness war.. just piss of the mixing engineer enough so that he can utilise the months he spends with the band and producer to inducing some sort reason?
In the couple of hours I spend with them there is no hope, and everytime I spoke nicely and explained and did not squish to death I had to "fix" it later for free