The tools, again IMHO, are not the ROAD to loudness. It's a tool mitigating the risks of loudness, but the less there is to mitigate, the better the results will be. Ofcourse, there is nothing "wrong" relying on these VST's to get you "there" but it will always come at a price. IMHO (and yours may differ) one should never depend on these color boxes to make thinks sound "fat" or that they are the tool for getting you into aggressive loudness territory. Move the needle from transparent peak catcher to creative loudness tool. Then all of those tools came into one VST offering IK Multimedia was a Pioneer with T-Racks, Then Ozone came along and from there also other offerings. The target moved when loudness became a thing, where suddenly a limiter also needed to complete with world class mixes, sort of playing catch-up in by giving a "professional" polish incl. The original intent of a limiter was to catch overs and ISP's to prevent digital distortion in an elegant, as much transparent way as possible. The main downside you could say is the price, with it costing a bit more than Waves L1, but it is a very powerful yet clean limiter and worthy of buying.It really depends on what people are looking for I usually only use the safe mode button on it though, with a bit of attack, soft knee and of course dither, this for me keeps things nice and clean, but the other settings can come in handy depending on the track and how you work. This can be fixed in other ways of course, but if you want to keep things simple I usually go back to the L1 or another limiter on these tracks. The limiter has a good number of handy features which include: 64bit compatibility, attack, release and variable soft knee controls, comprehensive dither and noise shaping, a good number of presets and more. Still some tracks I've found the Sonnox to sometimes bring the worse out of some harsh frequencies that may be in the mix no matter what settings you tweak. The Sonnox Oxford Limiter offers a good alternative to the other available limiter plugins on the market from waves etc. You can easily find the limits with this limiter as it lets you know when your pushing a track to hard as you'll hear things getting a bit to squashed and messy.įor me personally I've definitely found it to be much more clean then other plug-in limiters overall, though there is still some tracks I do prefer to sometimes use the L1 maximizer, but on most I prefer to use the Sonnox Oxford. With most tracks I personally find it can get tracks louder than other limiters such as the L1/L2/元 from waves and the ozone limiter etc, while keeping things nice and clean still. I find the Sonnox Oxford Limiter to be very handy in getting a good amount of loudness.
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I personally use the limiter on personal tracks I send out for people to listen to and friends who want their tracks to have a basic master with okay loudness, this is mainly all electronic music, I'm no professional but I do have a bit of experience. The Sonnox Oxford Limiter offers a good alternative to the other available limiter plugins on the market from waves etc.