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jazzius

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2004, 04:19:41 PM »

i mean it distorts when the L2 wouldn't at the same depth of limiting.....i'm talking levels of GR you might use to get something up to current commercial levels (for better or worse)....but it sounds more punchy then the L2, so that would be expected....

I mean any kind of distortion.....

Ethan Winer

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2004, 11:24:33 AM »

Jazzius,

> it distorts when the L2 wouldn't at the same depth of limiting <

Again, PeakSlammer is not a limiter, and it doesn't perform "gain reduction" in the same sense that a limiter does.

With a limiter, if you set the attack infinitely fast and the release very slow, then you won't hear it working at all because the volume is reduced instantly and stays constant. It's like a person manually turned down the volume once and left it down.

PeakSlammer is completely different, and it manipulates sections of the waveform. If it changes the gain too much you will get nonlinearites at the transition points between where it reduces and where it doesn't. Or where it reduces much more than where it reduces less.

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2004, 11:47:18 AM »

Ethan, this is what it says at the bottom of the plugin:

"Limits the audio peaks to the specified level"

It's a limiter.

Ronny

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2004, 06:05:13 PM »

jazzius wrote on Tue, 18 May 2004 11:47

Ethan, this is what it says at the bottom of the plugin:

"Limits the audio peaks to the specified level"

It's a limiter.



Anytime that you reduce peak transients without reducing RMS, you are limiting. Doesn't matter how the implementation achieves it.
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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2004, 02:42:50 PM »

Hmm, have now tried the Scrollworks plug,
and I seem to detect a funny sheen it puts onto my tracks,
not dissimilar to the Apogee SoftLimit.

Back to the L2 I guess


greets

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jazzius

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2004, 05:59:53 PM »

Try this:

make a 0dBFS 100hz sine wav.

Boost by 10dB.....ugly harmonics.

try a Peakslammer and an L2 on the 2-buss.....see which sounds better!.....i know this is a bit of a silly, non-real world situation, but interesting none-the-less!

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2004, 07:30:46 PM »

Iv'e found that using both the PS & the l2 can get you slammin loud with less artifacts than either alone.
tried it on some death metal the other day.
that is a genre isn't it?
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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2004, 04:34:25 AM »

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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2004, 05:24:40 PM »

I'm currently using it on XP. Works just fine.
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Re: Scrollworks Peak Slammer
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2004, 08:20:09 PM »

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