Those are the best versions.ĬD: Every single CD playback system I've ever seen has a volume control. I've started asking mastering engineers to send me the "mastered for vinyl" files of records I work on. The good news about this limitation of vinyl is that great mastering engineers know this, and – assuming the mixes you give them aren't already over-compressed – they will make a less-limited master to be cut for LP production. The end result is simply more surface noise. If a mix is limited too heavily, the lacquer needs to be cut in order to not have the needle flying all over the place. Vinyl: There is a physical limitation to how loud vinyl can be cut. The current version provides "stereo enhancement, equalization, AGC (Automatic Gain Control), multiband compression, low-IM (intermodulation) peak limiting, stereo encoding, and composite limiting – everything that even the most competitive major market station needs to stand out on the dial." These guys have it covered they don't need your Waves L2 Ultramaximizer limiter on your mix bus.
Radio: Since 1975, various versions of the Orban Optimod have been strapped across the broadcast mixes of most every radio station in order to maximize the loudness of the signal. Here is a case-by-case delivery format overview of why loudness maximization on the mixer's part is not a good idea: Now that the war is over, we shake our heads with retrospect and see how human folly was writ large in the audio bloodbath that engulfed the world for those years. (Not true, as we will see next.) From there, a comedy of errors ensued. This somehow got misunderstood to mean that cutting records louder meant they would sound louder to people listening to the radio station. Way back in the day, someone decided to cut their 7-inch, 45 rpm singles louder to impress radio station managers as they sorted through stacks of new singles. Sure, all the dynamic range will be gone, but that's the price to be paid to ensure your clients won't sound wimpy compared to the other four CDs in the changer.īut if you are mixing for any other format, be it radio, vinyl, CD, film, television, streaming, or iTunes, crushing your mix to maximize loudness is self-defeating.
#L2 ultramaximizer atten level should be at full#
Go ahead and set the maximum output of a limiter to -0.1dB Full Scale, and crush the living hell out of your songs. How many of you ladies and gentlemen are making music these days intended for listening primarily on a five CD changer set to shuffle? If that's your audience, you might feel forced to use multiband compressors and brick wall limiters to squeeze every bit of life out of your mixes.
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