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AM-55 / Sep 2015
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MB LIMITER MENU
The output of the i
AGC/Leveller/Compressor directly feeds the five band limiter. The
limiter in the AM‑55 was designed as a protection limiter between the dynamics processing
and the final peak clippers. Unlike other inferior designs on the market which require the
limiter to limit, retain spectral balance, gate and build density, our limiters are designed to
ONLY limit, which is what a limiter should do. In the AM‑55, density and spectral balance
is achieved in the i
AGC/Leveller and Compressor stages. That’s what they are there for.
The limiter works and sounds best when it just protects the clipper from overshoot from
the dynamics stage. That’s what it is there for!
Our limiters have no gating and should only be driven so that a few dB of limiting is
occurring. That’s it! You don’t want, nor should you NEED heavy amounts of limiting
when the previous stages of processing are designed correctly!
Limiters and Clipper Controls
Enable Limiters
The Enable Limiters
button turns ON or OFF the
limiter section. Under normal operation, this should
always be ON. If it is bypassed, audio is passed right
to the clipper without any limiting.
Multiband Limiter Drive
Drives the level into the five band limiter. It’s important to remember that the AM‑55
needs only a few dB of limiting to be loud yet amazingly clean! The drive control is
+/‑ 12dB with 0dB being default.
