Re: Safety Switch (Eero Aro )

Subject: Re: Safety Switch
From:    Eero Aro  <arox(at)SAUNALAHTI.FI>
Date:    Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:52:50 +0200

Tom Maglione wrote:
>        I just double checked and you can find out much more by searching on
>the web, including some low-cost stereo analog limiters used for some FM
>radio and other audio systems. Limiters are also sometimes used in the
>recording studio.

Sometimes?

Just to comment: all analog limiters add distortion.  Digital compressors and
limiters don't do that, as the signal is delayed a bit, so that when an
overload
is detected in the sidechain, the gain control gets to attenuate the signal
before it hits its head the ceiling.

Check for example TC Electronics "Finalizer".

Eero Aro
sound designer