Mastering Question: The Best Limiter: Final Limitation:

this is probably a stupid question but I though I ask anyway.
when your final mix is done and you want to bring everything up to the light "just before the red' which plugin is best for this?
After playing around with all of logics limiters I am yet to find one that does exactly this without hurting sound quality.
anyone?

the best limiter is the one you can't hear working.
i've tried most of the available, and for the most
part, would never depend on any.
a least do a mix without any for reference.
there's a certain skill in NOT having to depend on
such devices.
best, david r.
Sounds good (the answer and probably your results), but there is one reason that might vindicate the use of a limiter anyway.
Even when you balanced everything out to keep the whole song within the desired dynamic boundaries, there is no guaranty that under no circumstances some peak values can add up to unallowable levels since you don't have full control over all phase correlations between your tracks (or the voices of virtual instruments or the delay lines of certain effects). You can run (or bounce) a song several times and you will end up with several different overall peak levels. When recording on tape, the magnetic saturation will swallow such things, but in a digital system a limiter can help you out here.
So to me the best way seems to set all levels properly that no limiter is needed - and then to use it anyway for the worst case and hope it will never step in.

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