Limiter
Adaptive Limiter
Apple
Protect against clipping with predictive lookahead and true peak detection for flawless mastering headroom.
Limiter
Brickwall Limiter
Steinberg
Stop digital clipping dead with intersample detection while maintaining transparent dynamics across linked or independent channels.
Limiter
bx_limiter True Peak
Plugin Alliance
Catch peaks with surgical precision while adding warmth—dual modes and integrated tone controls let you protect masters without sacrificing character.
Limiter
bx_XL V2
Plugin Alliance
Separate bass and mids with phase-coherent precision, then tame each with independent limiting and harmonic saturation for transparent mastering control.
Limiter
Color Limiter
Ableton
Tame peaks while adding musical warmth—lookahead and saturation let you control loudness with character, not just safety.
Limiter
Faraday Limiter
Goodhertz
Tame peaks while adding analog warmth and harmonic richness—dial in anything from pristine limiting to saturated transformer growl.
Limiter
FG-X
Slate Digital
Tame peaks with choice of transparent limiting or musical saturation while FG-Comp glues dynamics together effortlessly.
Limiter
Fruity Limiter
Image-Line
Rein in peaks with surgical look-ahead limiting while saturating audio with analog warmth and sidechain flexibility.
Limiter
Kolin
Analog Obsession
Tame peaks with vintage warmth using precision attack/release controls and transient shaping in a classic limiting topology.
Limiter
L1
Waves
Catch peaks before they clip with zero overshoot protection, then quantize to any bit depth while controlling noise floor with precise dither shaping.
Limiter
L2
Waves
Clamp peaks instantly without artifacts while ARC automatically adapts release timing to your material—dither and noise-shape your way to pristine 16-24 bit masters.
Limiter
L3-16
Waves
Control 16 bands with surgical precision using one peak limiter, then shape tone with intuitive 6-band EQ while preserving phase accuracy.
Limiter
Limiter
Ableton
Keep peaks under a ceiling you set and stop clipping, choosing Standard, Soft Clip or True Peak limiting.
Limiter
Limiter
Apple
Limiter is a dynamic processor designed primarily for mastering that prevents audio peaks from exceeding a threshold level. Unlike a compressor, it reduces any peak above the threshold to the exact threshold level, effectively creating a hard ceiling on output volume. It's typically applied as the final process in a mastering chain to raise overall loudness while preventing clipping.
Limiter
Limiter
PreSonus
Protect mixes from clipping with surgical brickwall limiting and inter-sample peak detection.
Limiter
Limiter
Steinberg
Catch peaks instantly while Auto Release adapts to your audio—transparent protection with precise metering and flexible gain shaping.
Limiter
Limiter 6 GE
Tokyo Dawn Labs
Stack six specialized limiting modules in any order to tame peaks and loudness with surgical precision, from micro dynamics to final output protection.
Limiter
Maximus
Image-Line
Dominate dynamics across three frequency bands with infinitely variable compression curves and dual saturation for surgical control and creative coloration.
Limiter
Oxford Limiter V3
Sonnox
Catch peaks before they happen with look-ahead detection and reconstruct true peaks for broadcast-compliant mastering.
Limiter
Peak Limiter
Bitwig
Prevent digital clipping while maintaining transparency—protect your mix's peaks without coloring the sound.
Limiter
Pro-L 2
FabFilter
Protect your mix at loudness limits while monitoring against broadcast standards—eight distinct limiting flavors let you choose the character that serves your source best.
Limiter
ReaLimit
Cockos
ReaLimit is a brickwall limiter plugin by Cockos that prevents audio from exceeding a defined threshold while allowing you to lift overall mix volume. It provides real-time visual feedback showing exactly how the limiter is affecting your output, making it easy to see where limiting is occurring and by how much.