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Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/best-studio-gear/1121800-ten-best-brickwall-limiter-plug-ins.html Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins
Limiter plug-ins have become essential tools in today’s productions and that very last insert on the mix bus or mastering chain is a frequent, and very often heated subject of conversation in our community. There are many limiter plug-ins out there these days with many different options to choose from, so in order to help you out we trawled through many of our discussion threads to find out which limiters are getting our members' attention. Here are our findings - in alphabetical order by manufacturer.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/15 16:44:22
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Thanks to this list I checked out while drinking my morning tea, I ended up testing IK's Stealth on a mix I just finished. Wow. That thing is good.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 10:36:25
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They dont seem to like boz's wall. Gearslutz is unique crowd with opinions from a to z
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 11:02:04
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i use the Waves L2 at the moment...
still my favorite of all i've tested
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 11:02:51
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but i dig the L1 on individual tracks and busses during mixing after 6 years of using it, i ALMOST have it down. 
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 13:59:28
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batsbrew
but i dig the L1 on individual tracks and busses during mixing
after 6 years of using it, i ALMOST have it down.
Same here. I need to check out L2 though.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 16:48:01
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Cakewalk's Concrete Limiter is really under appreciated. I have the Waves L1 and a couple others but I generally stick with the Cakewalk PC unit now.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 17:27:03
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batsbrew
but i dig the L1 on individual tracks and busses during mixing
after 6 years of using it, i ALMOST have it down.
Same here.
I need to check out L2 though.
rain, i only use the L2 for mastering. almost never in my mixing, it's just overkill for that. sometimes i'll run stuff thru the L1 and not even kiss the meter, just for the way it colors it.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 18:50:31
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I must not be the gear slutz type...I really like Boz's The Wall. And I love IK Stealth.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 20:11:10
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☄ Helpfulby tlw 2016/11/17 15:44:33
The Gearslutz community seems to consist of 20% who really know their stuff, and 80% who happily regurgitate whatever they've previously read on Gearslutz. No surprise that there's a consensus.
There's not that a single one of those plugins that doesn't deserve to be on the list. But there are easily a dozen more that are in the same league but just haven't reached critical buzz-mass on GS. If you're currently using something that's not on that list, don't worry about it.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 20:38:37
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bitflipper
The Gearslutz community seems to consist of 20% who really know their stuff, and 80% who happily regurgitate whatever they've previously read on Gearslutz. No surprise that there's a consensus.
i do not trust anything i read on gear slutz. i almost never hear really decent recordings there either. and then, when i do hear one, it's REALLY good! i always figure, if somebody's spouting a bunch of bs about gear, ok,, let's hear their recordings. bottom line.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 21:00:49
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batsbrew
i always figure, if somebody's spouting a bunch of bs about gear, ok,, let's hear their recordings.
bottom line.
I'm with you on that. One of the reasons I try not to spout much BS. 
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 22:07:18
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I never spout about what I have. List it? Yeah. NP.
I own 5 of those:
Fab Pro-L
IKM Stealth
Ozone 7
Elephant (not the upgrade though, I'm still on 3.11)
Waves (actually all of their limiters in Mercury)
And I own two of the honorable mentions:
Slate FG-X
PSP Xenon
So I'm batting 500 as the saying goes.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 22:25:53
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You tell them, bapuji, you tell them.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/16 23:39:25
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bitflipper
The Gearslutz community seems to consist of 20% who really know their stuff, and 80% who happily regurgitate whatever they've previously read on Gearslutz. No surprise that there's a consensus.
A few years ago, Charlie Clouser (NIN, White Zombie, SAW movies, AHS) took part in a discussion and answered tons of questions. That's the most valuable/interesting info I've ever read on GS.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 11:07:10
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i missed that... that IS the one thing i do dig over there, when they get pros to come in and share their techniques and insights.... big classified section is a bit overwhelming..... i do hit the Expert Question & Answer Archives every so often.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 12:31:17
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i mostly read the mastering and acoustics forums, and lately the live sound forum. Those three have the best signal-to-noise ratio.
But there is no doorman to screen participants, so in the mastering forum you'll often get the self-styled experts and teenage "producers" spouting ignorant nonsense. However, on that forum the trolls are often smacked down with a "quiet, the grownups are talking" response that always makes me smile.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 12:32:52
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bitflipper
But there is no doorman to screen participants, so in the mastering forum you'll often get the self-styled experts and teenage "producers" spouting ignorant nonsense. However, on that forum the trolls are often smacked down with a "quiet, the grownups are talking" response that always makes me smile.
Note to self: Keep the bapu humor off GearSkanks.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 13:28:59
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Note to bapu: having a sense of humor does not make you a troll.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 14:51:52
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The studio build tbreads are sometimes interesting. ...some dude in Spain building a 30000 sq ft room in their extra acreage etc
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 15:48:20
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The only one listed I use is the L2. And that only in Logic where I can't use Cakewalk's Concrete Limiter. Which can hold up its head in any company in my opinion.
The CA-2A is available as an AU plugin and is as excellent in that format as it is in Sonar. It's a pity Cake don't do an AU version of a few more of their effects, they're generally excellent compared with the ones that get bundled with many DAWs.
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Re: Ten of the best Brickwall Limiter plug-ins (determined from users of gearslutz forum)
2016/11/17 15:56:56
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As for gearslutz, it's a place I only visit rarely and then only for as long as I can tolerate the very poor signal to noise ration from many posters. Far too much of some Forum God declaring "X is rubbish" or "X is awesome dude" followed by their true believers endlessly repeating the same and attacking anyone who even slightly disagrees with the divine viewpoint for me.
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2016/11/17 15:57:02
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