Limiter

 
A two-stage protection limiter for protecting against amplifier clipping and loudspeaker damage. The first stage has ballistics suitable for long term protection whilst retaining transparency and minimising signal level loss. The second stage has much faster ballistics to protect against loudspeaker over-excursion.

 

Inputs and Outputs

One audio input and one audio output.

Control Panel

Threshold control

• Adjusts the level threshold above which limiting will take place.

Attack control

• Adjusts the time it takes for the limiter to respond to signal levels above the threshold.

Release control

• Adjusts the time it takes for the limiter to recover after the signal level goes below threshold.

Notes

• This object will cause audible distortion if the Attack and Release times are too fast since it will be trying to apply dynamic gain reduction to the instantaneous values of lower frequency waveforms.