‘Balancing’ is the next tool at your disposal. You can add subtle warmth or you can go completely nuts and turn it all the way up for some considerable grit. Saturation is next and is quite self-explanatory. It’s like a knee setting but with a bit more going on. This allows you to choose if you want the limiting to be aggressive or gentle. The Style parameter, allows you to choose between Hard and Soft limiting. If you’d like a bit more control, the 4 parameters are quite useful for this. For someone starting out, the results will be quite satisfying. In most cases, especially if your song is in a popular genre like Hip-Hop, Rock etc. You just set the loudness section to your preferred streaming or broadcast standard, choose a genre (you can choose universal if you can’t figure this out), pick the loudest section of the song and then click the green record button and in a few seconds, the limiter has set itself! Sounds a little too easy right? Well, it is! It is almost like an auto-mastering service.
Set, Check and Publish?įor a beginner, using smart:limit couldn’t be easier. A small drop-down features a long list of genres to choose from so the plugin can push to genre-specific parameters. It features the familiar “Read” button to help capture a signal for analysis and then has another small button to reset the values to the ‘Smart’ settings if you have messed around with them too much. The last but most important for this plugin especially is the Smart section (C).
To the right of the parameters, we have the ‘Quality Check’ button (E) which we’ll get to further in the review. This can be a little concerning to see but looks quite cool. A tiny window on the bottom (F) labelled ‘Distortion Monitoring’ lets you see the different areas of the spectrum that are experiencing distorting in real-time with the specific areas lighting up in red. It allows an additional layer of control. These automatically set themselves just like the other parameters. There are 4 adjustable parameters – Style, Saturation, Balance and Bass control (D). Above the two monitoring sections (G) you have a few small options – constant gain monitoring, Delta (which shows only the signal that’s being attenuated) and Stereo link.īelow the monitoring section, we have a set of interesting features. The optimum range is shown via a shaded region in the metering so that you can keep the vitals well within the coloured region. There is also a useful dynamic range meter at the very bottom. These include most of the streaming and broadcast standards. The different loudness scenarios can be chosen from a small dropdown. You have very easy to read loudness meters that also specify the context that you have chosen. This section pulls out or tucks in with a small button. To the right of this section is the Loudness monitoring(B). On the upper part of this section (A), you can see the reduction in terms of how much of the signal is being attenuated in big red downward spikes. Gain, Ceiling, Attack and Release are all superimposed on this screen in the form of sliders that you can move up and down. There are not many hidden features and menus.Ī large part of the real estate is dedicated to the monitoring of the transients and waveform of the incoming signal. Everything that you need is right there on the screen. If you are new to Sonible plugins, it is still an intuitive plugin to navigate. It still has the same design philosophy and interface. The UI is extremely familiar if you are an existing user of any of the Sonible plugins. sonible Familiar, Sleek and Comprehensive
Smart:limit delivers limiter settings that let your mix breathe and gives you all the loudness and dynamics info you need for confident publishing. Is the smart:limit a must-have mastering tool? Does it really help? But as most of us know, a master limiter is definitely more sacred than that.
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If you consider a limiter to just be a compressor with an infinite ratio, then smart:limit can be seen as a mere tweak to the workflow and skin to the smart:comp. Now they have a new, shiny plugin in the form of smart:limit. They have 2 big ones, the smart:EQ and the smart:comp that have most of your EQ and compression sorted out. The latest entrant is from one of the early entrants in this space, Sonible. It’s a trend that I think isn’t going away any time soon. As 2021 comes to an end and we enter 2022, we are getting more accustomed to the rise of machines in terms of ‘AI Plugins’.
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