Thanks to anybody who has experience with the L1 and L2 and cares to comment!

So, I understand it's not ideal, but I'm not gonna be uncompetitive, or ask/think that an A&R person is going to turn up the volume knob. But I'm writing and producing Pop, where the loudness war is still a part of doing business. So, I wonder about spending $400.00 on any limiter, or changing from the L1, as it's clear to me that producers/mastering engineers that can buy anything are still producing undynamic square waves where there is not clarity other than a wall of loudness.Īnd yes, I know the loudness wars. I hear a very loud vocal and a concrete block of mushed sound behind it. The claims with all these limiters is better transparency- and how one is more transparent than another-, but I listen to all these professional mixes and when the chorus kicks into a square wave I don't hear transparency of individual instruments. I've got to say this, and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Has anybody used both? I'd like to hear your opinion. I've considering the L2 Ultramaximizer, but it's $400 bucks. It can really destroy things if you're not careful! Still learning.I've got the Waves L1 Ultramaximizer. I'm going to keep trying this CQ1/VM combo and see how it goes.īut you really have to know what you're doing with multiband. It's not brickwall, so an instance of VW (without drive) or Yohng after it just to catch the stray peaks. I've only spent a few days with it, but I'm beginning to think that CQ1 is the way to go for me. I'm on Mac and prefer no dongle, so I'm in the same boat as Tarekith. I demoed Roger Nichols Dyn-amizer and that was pretty transparent, but it has a dongle (I think). In contrast, I'd like to have a plug for those times when I need a more transparent plug. VM is about the most colored, but in a good way.

And I prefer the sound of Vintage Warmer over that.

Wavearts is way better than Yohng but there was something funny going on with the release I couldn't get quite right. You can only really pull the threshold down about -2db max without getting that hideously obvious smashed sound that is louder but loses the punch and tires the ears. Yohng is decent, but only if you use it extremely sparingly. In a nutshell I would say that most tweaking of non-EQ effects w/ozone always boosted mids, but in a negative way that threw off the balance of my mix. Of course it's difficult to describe because we're talking detail here. I really wanted to like ozone but there was something about the sound which I didn't like. Tarekith wrote:Call me crazy, but I really don't like the sound of it to be honest.

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