After countless hours of research at Bettermaker Labs, it's time to take the next step. The modern legend just got better, more powerful and more intuitive.
With new mastering features, a completely redesigned control and plugin screen, and presets from professional audio legends, Limiter 2.0 is the ultimate tool for giving your music the finishing touch it's become famous for, but with a little extra pizzazz.
Now, let's take a closer look at what's new:
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New improved throttling mechanism
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New intuitive GUI and DAW plugin
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Wide angle, high contrast screen
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Limiter gain reduction range
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Faster launch time
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Input/output link
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Redesigned color section with color MS matrix
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Sidechain limiter with high-pass filter and emphasis on high frequencies
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New and redesigned Clipper section
The Limiter 2.0's sound is obviously based on the quality of its hardware design, but all control and user interactions are performed in the digital domain.
This allows us to incorporate options and possibilities not found in any standard analog limiter:
– Save and recall presets
– Instant reset of all parameters
– Fast, accurate and repeatable adjustments
– Precisely linked stereo operation with single-control ease
– DAW automation
– Comprehensive measurement operations based on high-quality A/D conversion and DSP
Main features
The digital section of the Mastering Limiter is based on two 32-bit high-speed microcontrollers, with dedicated core features
. Limiter has 3 essential features to make a perfect master.
All of them can be retrieved via internal memory and a plugin that also takes care of automation.
Analog Mastering Limiter 2.0:
- 100% analog signal path
- smart release, manual and BPM
- new sidechain mode with HPF and MID Boost section
- variable mix between limiting and clipping
- new redesigned clipper section with 2 independent clipper sections and trim
- Flexible link mode to compensate input and output level
Color section
- New redesigned color section with MS matrix
- Two color modules introducing different saturation that can be used simultaneously
- Color 1 with majority of odd harmonics
- Color 2 with majority of even harmonics
- Both color sections can be internally equalized so that you can present, for example, more odd harmonics in the bass to give more vigor to the mix and sweeten the highs with the even harmonics in the highs.
Measurement
Measurement, an additional screen in your studio. As it is a touch screen, it also uses Mastering Limiter control functions. You can view your favorite set of statistics.
- Entry, exit and reduction
- Analog style meters (VU, PPM, RMS, peak with peak hold functionality)
- LUFS (short term, integral, intensity range, time view)
- K measurement
- 30-band FFT analyzer
- Goniometer
- Correlation meter
- Two measurement points, the output of the Limiter or the plugin
- and more…
DAW integration
Measurement, an additional screen in your studio. As it is a touch screen, it also uses Mastering Limiter control functions. You can view your favorite set of statistics.
- Entry, exit and reduction
- Analog style meters (VU, PPM, RMS, peak with peak hold functionality)
- LUFS (short term, integral, intensity range, time view)
- K measurement
- 30-band FFT analyzer
- Goniometer
- Correlation meter
- Two measurement points, the output of the Limiter or the plugin
- and more…
DAW integration
Bettermaker Mastering Limiter 2.0 has a new DAW plugin for all major platforms. The unit can communicate with your DAW via USB connection. The unit appears as a HID device and can be managed through the Bettermaker Mastering Limiter plugin.
- Maximum gain reduction: 20 dB
- Input adjustment range: 0..+20dB
- Output adjustment range: -10..+12dB
- Makeup gain: automatic with trim (range of -/+8dB; only available with clipper activated)
- Attack time: 0.1 – 250ms
- Release time: 2ms – 2s + IREL (smart release)
- HPF sidechain: off or 20-200Hz (2nd order)
- sidechain mid boost: off or 8dB @ 2kHz or 7kHz
- ADC measurement range: 70dB
- power saving mode available
- mid/side mode available, true bypass (relays) available
- connection: balanced XLR (audio), USB type B (PC/MAC), 5.5/2.1 central positive socket 12V only
- Maximum input level: +24 dBu (balanced with 48kΩ input impedance)
- Maximum output level: +27 dBu (balanced with 50Ω + 50Ω output impedance)
- Nominal audio level: +4 dBu
- Frequency response: 6 Hz – 27kHz (-0.5 dB, ISO-R40 sweep)
- Frequency flatness: +/- 0.1 dB (20Hz – 20kHz, ISO-R40 sweep)
- Dynamic range: 107 dB (20kHz bandwidth, +24dBu)
- THD+N ratio: 0.05% (20kHz bandwidth, +4dBu, 1kHz)
- THD ratio: 0.03% (+4dBu, 1kHz)
- CMRR: > 80dB (20Hz – 20kHz, IEC 60268-3)
- Crosstalk: > 76dB (20Hz – 20kHz, +18dBu, channel to channel)
- AC power consumption: max. 25 W (<2 W in standby mode, with 100-240 VAC power adapter included)
- 2U case, 230 mm deep
- Shipping weight and size: 5 kg, 62x37x21cm