Being able to adjust the knee along a variable range is very useful. Enhance also helped on a rap release for Boaz, where I was able to bring up the vocals without messing with the underlying beat.Īnother well-designed feature is the knee control, which allows hard or soft knee compression as well as any setting in between. We were particularly pleased with the way the Enhance control can increase perceived loudness without the nasty artifacts and digital "crunchies" you get when you push other limiters too hard. Working on the new release for Centipede Eest, engineer Joshua Tanzer and I were able to increase vocal definition, lead-guitar articulation, and mix density through a judicial use of the enhancement feature. In use, the features on this limiter are more than marketing hype.
Enhance uses sample-value limiting to add impact to your audio without increasing the maximum peak value. Here, users can control output level and choose multiple dither depths and types, as well as adjust a value called Enhance. Finally, the signal is routed to the output stage. From here, the signal moves to the pre-process section, where attack, release, and knee values can be tweaked. But there are also several features that make this a unique title.įollowing the signal flow, the first section is the input stage, which provides +/-18 dB of gain adjustment.
There is an input gain, a maximum out, and dithering options. At first pass, Oxford Limiter looks like any other digital plug-in. Sonnox also makes Pro Tools HD and PowerCore versions that run on OS X or Windows. I tested the native VST version inside Sequoia on a Windows XP machine. After several weeks of daily use, I am impressed by the flexibility, power, and fidelity of this top-notch limiter. I recently started using a copy of Oxford Limiter. Years later, Sonnox is making the original Sony Oxford effects (as well as some new ones) available for you and me. It featured programs so advanced that the company had to fabricate custom DSP chips to run the effects. When Sony Oxford released the OXF-R3 in the 1990s, it was one of the most ambitious digital consoles ever.
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