ARC Limiter
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:40 pm
ARC are the acronyms of Automatic Release Control. Ok I will explain why is better than normal "manual" release an how it works:
The main problem with the brickwall limiter is: At high release it distorts, and with slow releases, the problems are the transients, which gives to the envelope a false VOLUME. It means that the sound that comes just after the transient will be not compressed and even attenuated, without even having exceeded the threshold, and the transient will be killed as well. The difference between volume and level is that the volume is the intensity with which the human listens to how loud it sounds (RMS for example). The level, expresses the real measure of that audio in digital form (True Peak for example).
To solve the problem, you simply have to lower the release time when there are transients, and upload it when there aren't. Boom then you have back your transients again!!
Important to know: I did not really investigate if this is how the plugins that carry this function work, but it occurred to me to do it this way, and I repeat, I do not know if it is the right way, but I know that my algorithm works. Also if you know how it really works let me know
I make it public to discuss this and maybe improve it, since on the internet I did not find how the ARC works.
Thanks!!
The main problem with the brickwall limiter is: At high release it distorts, and with slow releases, the problems are the transients, which gives to the envelope a false VOLUME. It means that the sound that comes just after the transient will be not compressed and even attenuated, without even having exceeded the threshold, and the transient will be killed as well. The difference between volume and level is that the volume is the intensity with which the human listens to how loud it sounds (RMS for example). The level, expresses the real measure of that audio in digital form (True Peak for example).
To solve the problem, you simply have to lower the release time when there are transients, and upload it when there aren't. Boom then you have back your transients again!!
Important to know: I did not really investigate if this is how the plugins that carry this function work, but it occurred to me to do it this way, and I repeat, I do not know if it is the right way, but I know that my algorithm works. Also if you know how it really works let me know
I make it public to discuss this and maybe improve it, since on the internet I did not find how the ARC works.
Thanks!!