What an excellent review, thoroughly enjoyed it. I definitely will be purchasing this limiter. Keep up the great work🏅🎶🎶👌🏼

this review is GREAT. i subscribed.

Nice review. All the best.

I just bought the whole Studio set... Love all the plugins!

Great video , thanks:)

Good review good plug-in good work bro

Impressive! I didn't know it. I believe it is the best limiter on the market these days. Congratulations! Great video!

Great limiter. I'll download it & test it against my Pro-L2.

I picked this one up immediately. Anything to make my mastering game easier. I have many of their other smart plugins and while i dont use them all the time i often use them on submix channels. I have plugin alliance emulations too which i like to also use for their sound as well as izotope so I do a lot of mixing and matching. Im probably going to toss this on the end of my mastering chain with all of my other mastering effects i use. I have them all set to off and turn them on as needed.

Gracias

Smart Limit is also great on busses and some individual tracks. Great review video!

Yeah, very interesting review, thanks for this. Definitely seems a great tool for beginners. So I guess the obvious comparison would be ozone as that’s a lot of people’s quick limiting tool in the industry for a “quick bounce.” Especially ozone advanced as that has IMO the most transparent algorithms. I can already see that this has way more presets than Ozone’s maximiser. Also I know fabfilter pro-l has a lot of different modes/algorithms love to know how they stack up? Just thoughts if you come back to this plug-in. Fab filters pro-l has a great reputation too, could be just great I think if you do the best job you could with fabfilter than put the smart limit on. Surely your taste as a mix/master engineer differs from what an algorithm suggests. But it does look like a great tool. + the fact it sounded quite smooth when pushed hard (i mean on KZfaq), means it seems great. Thank you for the review.

nice

In my opinion as an automatic tool it’s very good, but remember it’s just giving you a starting point to tweak, when you then do that properly then it’s exceptional and transparent but still capable of bass control and saturation, and with distortion monitoring it’s an amazing tool

Sonible says not to worry about LUFS, just make sure your range/volume are balanced and Spotify et al will make the adjustment. Do you agree?

Just demo'd it and there's a lot to like about Smart Limit. It sounded great and some of the features seem pretty useful in a pinch. However, it was much more CPU heavy than Pro L2 on my 12-core Mac (not sure why), and I also was getting gain reduction showing up in the Smart Limiter metering with the input gain at 0dB and with the ceiling at 0dB...which is really weird. I emailed Sonible support about this. Haven't heard back yet.

Great breakdown, as I have come to expect from your channel. One thing I was about to point out (although someone else in the comments beat me to it) was the slight discrepancy in Output level between Smart Limit/Pro-L - still a good comparison, nonetheless. Something present in a plethora of limiters which I seem to be missing in Smart Limit is the option to apply Dither - have you noticed such a feature thus far? Thanks.

Awesome! Sonible seems to be killing it with these smart plugins. Have you checked out Focusrite and Sonible's FAST plugins? They're very beginner friendly.

Really handy limiter. I think I will buy it. How names the track ID of that synth wave kind track in the background?

The launch price is only 65 Euro if you already own a sonible product! Even cheaper than the launch price they gave me! Wow. The more I use it, the more I love it.*Note: the Pro-L 2 test was just a quick and dirty gain match; will test more carefully soon. What did you think?

I love this limiter. I have been using it. The only problem is the aliasing and I am having inconsistent true peaks. I bounced two masters today. Had the limiter set to -1. In RX Pro using loudness control, the true peak of both was -.9. At first, the opposite was happening, I was setting it to -1 and was getting a true peak of -1.1. Weird...... I have sent emails in and they said they were aware of the Aliasing and working on a fix. It's a great limiter. I just don't use the saturation and I'm not really worried about .1dB hahaha. Even at -.9 everything will convert just fine when the streaming services do their thing.

Pro-L threshold is at 0, you used -1 on Smart-limit, that explains the level difference. Anyway, great review :)

Smart limit opened up more with your A/B at the end with comparing to L2, not louder, but opened, at least with that material.. starting at 11:44 re listen do you hear it?

I would like to come back to the optimization of the master's at -14dB LUFS. As you say in other topics, this limiter doesn't adjust the gain structure to meet that target. Also is it possible to adjust final LUFS with out gain button (right back) ? Thanks a lot for your advice

Why is everyone so impressed with Pro-L, anything is the Pro-L killer, that limiter ruins transients & sounds more digital than anything else I've used. By far the most overrated plugin in the game. You can even hear it in this comparison, nothing screams "cheap home mastering" like Pro-L. Sonible is dope. The BX Masterdesk is my go-to limiter, sounds Analog AF.

incomprehensible review, switches around so fast there's no time to know or process what's going on. I've watched three other reviewers of Sonible EQ3 and they did the same thing so maybe it's just me but,jeeze, can everyone slow down enough to let us hear the differences?

it would help a ton if you don't have your bloody 'subscribe' plug popping up in the way of what you are trying to detail.

FINALLY someone who knows what they are talking about without all the bullshit most of these other "youtubers" are dishing out. As an added bonus your voice doesnt annoy the fuck out of me :)🤣

Why would a smart limiter like this tell you to push and push until it's -9lufs when you've already set Spotify as your yardstick which specifies -14lufs???