"W1 Limiter is a clone of Waves L1, with
identical output.
I have not seen any Waves source
code, and this result was obtained by tweaking
4Front YLimiter, by doing the following:
- Release curve simplified
- Release time multiplied 3 times (see notes
below)
- Softening circuit filter changed
Waves L1 famous limiter (and thus W1
- for compatibility reasons) uses three times longer
actual release time than standard RT60 metric. This
means that if you set 50ms release in the
limiter, it will actually yield with 150ms
standard RT60 release time.
Since this cloning could be done,
you may have no doubt that in the future I'll
provide you with a commercial limiter, that beats
everything currently available (I have prototypes
already).
If you are unsure which release time
to set, consider using the default release time.
Different engineers recommend different values, the
default value is chosen reasonably to provide a
smooth limiting for most typical usage of the
limiter."
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W1 limiter
