Re: [LAU] Limiters?

Every time I read a post like this (no offense intented to the poster), there is this desire creeping up my back to write a decent peak limiter, or just release the things I already have. What stops me is the simple fact that by doing that I'd be contributing to the IMHO completely misguided and even stupid fashion of increasing the apparent loudness of recordings by any means, at the expense of sound quality. Simple fact is this: if it isn't loud enough, turn up the volume. The result will be vastly superior to what you can achieve by squeezing dynamics to death. Regarding ScalingLimiter, I wonder how many peope are actually aware of what it is doing. Which is to measure the peak level of segments delimited by zero crossings and then apply a constant gain factor to each segment to adjust its peak level to close to the maximum. The idea seems to be that changing gain at a zero crossing doesn't introduce distortion. Which is wrong, it does generate gross amounts of intermodulation distortion, just having less HF energy than when switching gain at random points. This makes a complete joke of whatever follows in the reproduction chain - you could as well use the worst amplifier (in terms of IM distortion) you can find and things wouldn't sound any different. Ciao,