Nectar’s Limiter serves two purposes: it allows you to aggressively limit high level signals to prevent clipping, and it allows you to create an overall louder or fuller sound by limiting the dynamic range and boosting the perceived overall level of your vocals.
Threshold (dB)
Determines the level at which the limiter will begin limiting. Turning down the threshold limits more of the signal and in turn will create an overall louder output. In other words, by turning down the Threshold you limit the dynamic range of the audio. The limiter also automatically applies gain as you bring down the Threshold, boosting the overall level of your audio.
Margin (dB)
Determines how much to attenuate the output signal after limiting.
Threshold Control
The Threshold Control is a meter that allows you to adjust the Threshold and Margin of the Limiter in visual relation to the levels of the incoming signal.
The Threshold Control displays gain reduction as it is taking place with level meters. Two meters display the levels of the incoming signal and as gain reduction begins to take place, a gain reduction meter appears in red between the two signal level bars. The Threshold Control meter also displays the amount of gain reduction in real-time with a dB readout at
the bottom.
Gain Reduction Trace
The Gain Reduction Trace is a scrolling meter that displays the incoming signal’s waveform with a superimposed tracing that illustrates the amount of gain reduction taking place in real-time.
Mini-spectrum Display
Each module of Nectar features a display of the frequency spectrum at the top for reference while making changes to your audio within the module.
In Mixing Mode, Nectar’s Limiter module will make use of lookahead in order to provide the more transparent results. However, this process requires a small amount of latency (delay) and is only available in Mixing Mode. In Tracking mode, Nectar’s Limiter will incur less latency making tracking possible, but processing will be less transparent.