The Mastering Show Podcast

with Ian Shepherd and Jon Tidey

The Mastering Show #3 – Limiting – and why you’re probably doing it wrong

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In this show we take a deep dive into the topic of limiting.

We explain why you need limiters, important Do’s and Dont’s, recommended plugins – and why there’s a good chance you’re using them wrong…

Links:

Are brickwall limiters nothing but pure evil ?

Mastering limiters – how and why to use them

Video demonstrating inter-sample peaks and how they affect Mastering for iTunes

Intersample peaks and why they matter

More about why you should leave at least 1 dB peak headroom when mastering, with audio examples

Mastering for Soundcloud

Source: The Mastering Show

Comments

  2. Ian and Steve,
    Can’t thank you guys enough for starting this show. I found it fascinating and such a pleasure to listen to. I look forward to more episodes to come!
    Craig.

  3. Love the show. I’m sure it will come up but I’d love to hear your perspective on mastering poor mixes when remixing is not an option. Many thanks for doing the show.

  4. Ian & Steve
    Well done for getting this together. It means that we can now finally get all Ian’s wonderful nuggets of knowledge which are scattered like little jewels on the sea in one ‘single’ place.
    I’m pretty sure that Ian is equally happy to consolidate all his knowledge.
    Great. Looking forward to seeing how far this can develop.

  6. Hey Ian!
    Thanks for the podcasts. These are fantastic. Any experience/opinions on outboard limiters like the Rockruepel Limit.One or the Pendulum Audio PL-2?

    Any advantage in these?

  7. Hi Ian,

    Comment:
    You mentioned you used to use -0.3 dB as the ceiling (margin) on the limiter when the limiter was intern-sample peak aware.

    Question:
    Are you now recommending a -1.0 dB ceiling, across the board, even when the limiter is interns ample peak aware?

    Thanks!

  9. Hi Ian,

    Comment: Great SHOW!
    I use iZotope’s limiter and have read the technical definition of threshold and margin, but still not sure what the difference is.

    Question:
    What is the difference between threshold and margin, and why set the margin to -1.0 dB and not the threshold?

    Thanks. : )

 
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