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Limiter can't be disabled

acloudyskye · started 2017-09-23 00:14 · updated 2017-09-27 08:17

Okay so I was making some basses in next and noticed that even when I turned the volume as loud as it could go, the signal wouldn't clip. the master output would say it was clipping but there's no distortion, just a lot of volume shake.

Comments (13)

mxcii
2017-09-25 13:46 · 2017-09-25

yeah happens to me too, it feels like the audio never hard clips

mxcii
2017-09-25 13:46 · 2017-09-25

makes mastering a biig pain

acloudyskye · reply
2017-09-25 13:47 · 2017-09-25

ikr, i found a work around by putting a crusher on the master and not changing any of the settings, acts as a clipper but yeah I shouldn't have to do that haha.

mxcii
2017-09-25 13:58 · 2017-09-25

the problem isn't that we can't turn the switch off, the problem is that it doesn't hard clip. it just sounds like there's a limiter.

mxcii
2017-09-25 14:04 · 2017-09-25

yeah i thought that might've been the case, do you know if there's any way to disable this?

mxcii
2017-09-25 16:43 · 2017-09-25

can you elaborate?

acloudyskye
2017-09-25 17:22 · 2017-09-25

are you 100% sure? I could record a video of it happening

mxcii
2017-09-25 18:09 · 2017-09-25

ok i just got into the state where it hard clips

mxcii
2017-09-25 19:20 · 2017-09-25

weird thing is i didn't actually do anything for it to change. i'm always using the Speakers output on windows (which is actually my headphones). i normally use bitwig studio, and i've never hard the limiter thing happen there. so idk what causes it to happen.

mxcii
2017-09-25 19:24 · 2017-09-25

i've just done the same test that we did in audiotool but in bitwig, and yes, it does hard clip. i don't know how to get back into the state where it limits my audio, but i'm gonna try and explore my settings some more, maybe there's something i overlooked.

mxcii
2017-09-25 19:30 · 2017-09-25

i normally have bitwig studio on an asio driver, where i've checked "hard-clip output at 0db", so i guess that's why i've never had it limit.

mxcii
2017-09-25 19:35 · 2017-09-25

would this be possible with some sort of plugin for chrome? kinda like booster?

mxcii
2017-09-25 19:47 · 2017-09-25

the reason why i want hard clipping is so i can hear when something goes above +0db while i'm mixing. else, a sound that's +30db for example (maybe a bit of an exaggeration), would sound exactly like something that's at +0.5db