I don't own a good brickwall limiter/maximizer in my drawer of plugins. And I know I can get one for $29 from Waves. But I own Waves Renaissance Compressor and was wondering how to build one, if possible with a few compressors chained together or something. I was inspired to try brickwall limiting to my music by a couple of sources. I play bluegrass acoustic music.

Hi, i have recorded a 24 tracks concert with an Alesis HD24 at 48 khz and 24 bit, i imported it in logic and mixed it, now, I am going to bounce on 2 tracks, to go to a mastering session.
so what is THE correct work flow, bouncing and sample rate conversion with logic and l3 at the end as last plug in?

Hey all,

What is mastering all about? Is it worth spending money on now that we have great plugins like Maximizers?

What are your thoughts?

Can you hear the difference to the sound quality before and after?

Hi. Me and the guitarist in my band are working building up our pa system right now. And I've always seen the BBE Sonic Maximizers. I was just wondering what exactly do they do?

I just ordered a SM57 because I need a good mic that is extremely flexiable in most applications. I will be laying vocals ontop of my instrument tracks soon. Done a lot of research on acoustics and what not but was curious if the use of a BBE 482 would be a good idea to improve my sound, every signal i've ran thru it always comes out better, wondering if I should take it raw or use it.

Just dont say it maximizes the sound...lol

Anyway what is it? Is it limiter, compressor, expander?
Whan to use it?

I have a chance to get hardweare and vst for cheap but i dont know exactly what is it...

thank you

i've read in many forums that WavesL?-Maximizer is probably the most user friendly compressor/squasher/limiter for vocals

The L1 Maximizer is fairly cheap right now, whereas the L3 and whatever it's sequel is are not

has anyone used these to see if theres really much difference? the website descriptions have been rather unhelpful

I just bought this thingy, except its not like all the ones i see online, the red and white 882is.

Its black and blue, and has basically the same knobs and lights and stuff, but its a 882, not a 882i.

Can anyone tell me what the differance is?

I read a lot of blogs about the L3 MULTImaximer being multiband and not as clean as the L2. What about the L3 ULTRAmaximizer? Is that cleaner? As good as the L2?
THANKS in advance.

well what the h*** do they do?