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bx_
XL
manual
strength… Certain music styles seem to require that squashed sound
and “loud first impression”, but you might achieve a bigger and longer
lasting impact with a powerful mix that is loud… not dead. Please do
keep this in mind when cranking up your mixes.
bx_XL internally converts stereo signals into M (mid / sum) and S
(side / difference) signals and splits the M channel into 2 bands (hi &
lo). This way you can limit and level 3 individual channels to increase
loudness and improve clarity of stereo mixes drastically – with much
less distortion artifacts and while keeping much more “punch” than any
other limiter system.
Via the Crossover Frequency slider the “MidLo” channel can be used to
separate the bass drum and limit it different than the rest of your mid
signal easily! This is great for all kinds of dance, rap, techno and rock
music!
After these 3 channels have been mixed back together to a regular L/R
stereo signal internally the signal runs through an additional (fourth!)
final standard brickwall peak stop limiter which offers an adjustable
master out level.
bx_XL also has a 3 band “psycho-acoustic” loudness maximizer built-in
and offers 4 automatable settings with copy & paste functionality. All
these features combined with 32 steps of Undo / Redo and various
detailed Level meters make for a sophisticated dynamics & loudness
control system second to none.
We recommend bx_XL to be used as the final plugin on the stereo
master buss for mixing and mastering purposes and it can work great
on any stereo bus / stereo sub group as well.
bx_XL is based upon the M/S technology taken from our “modern
classic” M/S EQ bx_digital. We developed this hi-end analogue EQ
2006/2007 and we have offered a plug-in emulation of this EQ ever
since. Engineers and magazines around the globe rave about bx_digital
so we decided to develop a limiter that “teams up” perfectly with our EQ
in mastering situations.
Multiple Solo, Auto Solo and Link features enable the engineer to
precisely adjust all stages of this hi-end mastering limiter.
bx_XL looks quite complex at first, but once you get the internal signal
flow and audio splits you will be able to use it intuitive and fast.
It might be worth taking a look at the graphical layout of the internal
signal flow, see next page.
Please read about all the details in chapter 8.
