Florian Harres

PRODUCTION INSIGHT: SIMPLE 2 LIMITER/CLIPPER GAIN STAGING TECHNIQUE FOR MORE OPEN SOUND

Added 2022-12-05 19:03:57 +0000 UTC

Oi fam!

Got a new production insight for you here. A very simple but very effective gain staging / limiting hack to achieve an overall more open, clear and less compressed sound. In a nutshell: you share the load of working the "gain" on shoulders of more instances and by that get a clearer and more flavored signal; the video should speak for itself, hope you find this insightful.

PS: This trick not only works on the master channel, but also works on busses or maybe even single sounds when heavy limiting/clipping is needed/used. As with everything, just try it out yourself and compare the results. Over the past years I did manage to achieve imo better sounding results making use of this simple trick when I had to deal with adding more gain to something.

Flo