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Gassing your mix with a limiter or two

Gassing your mix with a limiter or two

From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers

Gassing your mix with a limiter or two

- [Narrator] Now that we've got some good compression, and some bus processing going on, it's time to talk about limiters. Now, there are a million and a half different opinions out there about limiters, I personally like to use them on things. I think it's nice to get things nice and loud using them. You got to be responsible about it, though. So, I'm going to show you a technique that I use for things that are more pop or electronic oriented or urban stuff that can get things singing pretty good, but without completely losing all of the vibe, you know? So we're actually going to use two limiters let's start with one, to talk about having it getting stabilized, and then we can talk about using two, because I don't care what your grandparents told you, that's okay. It's fun to use two limiters. I'm going to start out with my old friend the L2007 here. This is made by Massey Plugins. This is a great sounding limiter, and I'm just going to go ahead and start pulling down the threshold…

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