Tolerance Maximizer

[banjo71]

I'm pretty much a newbie here, but I've got an idea in my head. It may not be worth anything to anybody, though. It's called a Tolerance Maximizer. Basically it's a maximizer a lot like Pro Tool's Maxim. But instead of a release/limit, it allows certain frequencies, with an adjustable Q range, to pass through the limit. You'd have a ceiling target, where you may set at say -0.5 dB. Normally nothing passes past -1/2 dB as hard as you push it. But with this "tolerance", say a band from 6-8kHz could pass with an adjustable negative attenuation of say, 0.7 dB. Could brighten the sound a bit, although I 100% agree this should be taken care of in the mix. But it's kind of neat idea.

 

[mshilarious]

Any multiband could do that, although you'll have to reconsider what you think of as threshold because the peak energy in a given frequency band will be less than integrated peak level, especially at higher frequencies as program material tends to approximate a pink noise curve.