Humbucker
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I've just finished mixing an instrumental track I'm working on and to add a bit of polish(I certainly wouldn't call it mastering hehe) I EQ'd the final mix a little, compressed it a little and put it through the Kjaeurhus Master Limiter aswell as adding dithering using the Cubase UV22. I'm just a little confused as to how to tell if it is 'over' in terms of peaks. I know obviously you should hear some distortion but I don't hear that. Basically I just added a couple of decibels to it with the Limiter, but how do I know how far I can push it? There is a meter on the Classic Master Limiter but it was going nowhere near the red on there, however when bringing it into T-Racks(purely out of interest to see the level) it said it was going over. Also in Cubase it was going way into the red. Can I basically push it as far as I want, but of course the further I push it the more it is gonna be 'squashed' as to limit the peaks it needs to compress the signal? I'm thinking it's a case of trusting your ears, but I know there are far more experienced ears out there than mine so I don't necassarily trust my own 100%. I guess Im basically asking for a summarised explanation of limiting. Here's the track I'm talking about, like I said it has +2b on top of it with the Limiter. Can I take it higher or should I just leave it the way it is? Apologies for the nieve undercurrent to my questions, but you gotta ask Here's the track:-
http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=3188
http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=3188