Limiter on bus

[readytowok]

I didn't know how to name the topic. Probably something to do with compression.

on the master buss, I added a limiter to +6 decibels. Then moved the level of the track which I need. Sounds like everything I want BUT VERY LOUD. Then I added a limiter and made -6 dB. Eventually got a normal volume and everything sounds tight. But the wave now looks like just minus 6 decibels someone did.

I want the same volume and density but the peaks to hit 0 dB. What is the effect of this and all that....

 

[miroslav]

Nice looking waveform...you could plum with it.

So I'm trying to understand...first you added a limiter to push everything to +6dB (why oh why? )...then you added the limiter again, this time to -6dB...?

Well the first pass will brickwall everything...which is your flat-line wave...the second pass will simply lower that flat line waveform by 6 dB.

Start over...undo both, and then be a bit more conservative with the first pass of the limiter.
+6 dB is a bit...well...a lot over the top.

 

[mixsit]

Basically.. if you like the sound of the limited version, then just reduce the level after the limiter. That would be on the limiter's output, or the bus fader.