![]() listen to the low-end and low level details, they are completly messed up, you get very harsh sounding high-frequencies and cannot get rid of anymore. well it is, but only on cheap monitoring systems. is a fooling limiter/clipper, beginners percieve this distorted sound as "powerfull" and "loud". an additional problem is that the digital domain has serious problems with waveshaping, because very high frequencies are created by the process, they will create alot (harsh & digital sounding) aliasing artifacts. is one of the badest limiters i've ever heard, simply because it is not a clean gain reduction (like true limiters should do), it's nearly pure waveshaping, you can compare it with a guitar distortion (and distortion is really the last thing you want to apply during mastering). Is this what Sonic does w/ their Mastering Compressor, to get this supposed world-class hot level.or is it just another typical soft clipping function, like Elephant (for example) has?įirst, what is the "Timeworks Mastering Converter"? a piece of software? i think you mean their "mastering compressor". world, is normally associated w/ the digital "soft saturation" functions on units like the Lavry AD122 or dbx Quantum II).& I've heard that the Sonic Timeworks Mastering Compressor had the best (cleanest) sound when it comes to soft limiting or soft clipping.or if that's what it actually is (?)ī) If it is.have they discovered the perfect algorithm (as Lavry has w/ their Soft Saturation or dbx has w/ their Type IV Conversion?) These functions, used to produce hotter recordings (w/o loosing punch, clarity & high fr.'s) are implemented post conversion.whereby both processes work by first setting a high threshold (-4dB to -12dB).& then boosting the signal below the threshold in a typical linear curve (input = output).but everything above is squeezed between the threshold & 0dBFS.expanding the dynamic range in that region (what dbx calls an "overload region") by increasing the # of bits that represent the signal there through logarithmic mapping. Looking for that "hit the A/D Converter hard" mastering sound in the software world (which, in the hdwe.
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