Post added at 05:26 PM - Previous post was at 05:23 PM. Im not even sure why I am required to think of mixing as a discrete stage in the production. who writes the laws on that cos I haven't seen them.
If the question is more about whether you should have a limiter that is actually doing a lot of work limiting the signal, before the mix stage. Also, many would argue that a final limiter probably shouldnt be colouring the sound at all, let alone intentionally saturating the sound. so anything that was hitting 0db is going to be not hitting 0db when you being mixing.Īs for the fruity limiter, IIRC changing the saturation knob radically changes the threshold of the limiter.
Having the sound hit 0db while youre producing a track is maybe a bad thing or not, but like I said, if you are going to do a whole 'mix' stage you are probably going to completely redo all the levels anyway. And if you are not hitting 0db the limiter wont be doing anything. So what you want to avoid is hitting 0db, regardless of the limiter. Either way would distort whatever (usually transients) going over 0db. If the signal is hitting 0 then itll sound terrible without a limiter or sound OK but limitted with a limiter. What I meant is that all a limiter does is stop a signal going over a threshold.
