bouldersoundguy
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Thanks, all.
I'm going to try a limiter on it today and see how that goes. If it's bad, I'll go manual. Cubase 9.5 comes with one stock. Jimmy said stock limiters aren't as good as 3rd party. Can anyone elaborate on why the stock one wouldn't do the job? And also, any recommendations on a good limiter if I decided to go 3rd party? Thanks!
In my opinion it's not so much stock vs. third party as generic limiter vs. good mastering limiter. Sometimes you can get away with a generic limiter if you're clever about the settings, but a quality mastering limiter might make it easier to hit the signal fairly hard without it sounding bad. I guess most DAWs don't come with good mastering limiters so you end up having to buy a third party plugin. Last I heard, Jimmy was using the Fabfilter Pro-L. I've been pretty happy with the Slate FG-X. Vegas Pro has a decent one in its stock effects package.