New Brainworx true peak limiter

I did some blind comparisons with Pro-L2 and found them really close, sonically. A bit different but negligible enough for me that after a couple rounds of blind AB, I knew I wouldn't be purchasing the BX. In the end I ended up slightly preferring Pro-L2 (a little clearer, less murky when doing significant limiting) when doing it blind. But, to me, it's high praise that the BX more or less hangs with the FabFilter. Great addition if you don't have a good limiter and you're on the PA subscription.

I've been working on a laptop with limited plugins so I've been using this on my recent mixes. It's clear, precise, fairly detailed. But the stock Reaper free limiter is quite good also, just has a little more character to it.

I haven't compared it to my other "big dog" limiters yet though, that will be the real test, on a big production. But early testing is favorable. It's nice to have something like this in the Plugin Alliance packaged, even though I don't really need more limiters.

On a side note I was able to run 131 and 161 instances of it on my two different computers before windows started crashing, audio was passing fine. So it might be decent on CPU efficiency, which my main limiter, Elevate, is certainly not.

looking forward to your results as i just upgraded from vladg limiter n6 to the tdr limiter n6 and am more than happy with it. i have no intention to check out or buy bx new limiter. but i am interested nevertheless in a comparing between the two.

This is good but not great. It's cleaner than the TDR True Peak function, which you shouldn't be using, but not nearly as clean as the Tokyo Dawn Labs Limiter 6 GE on insane mode. TDR is still #1 for limiting and compression itb. This can dig into waveforms in a rather unpleasant way that EDM guys like but sounds bad on acoustic drums. The TDR Limiter 6 GE has crazy program dependencies to prevent that and not distort sine waves. This does make Limiter 6 GE squishier rather than brighter. I do wonder if they copied TDR though with the internal oversampling.

This is quite good if you get it for free with a subscription. Worth 250 bucks? Hell no. Worth 50? No. Worth 29 dollars when it's on sale with a voucher? Yeah because it sounds cool but honestly I'd rather just have a bottle of liquor over a plugin I'll never use because it's not the best or fastest.

I haven't tried Brainworx, but just getting into FF Pro-L2, it sounds like 5 different limiters depending on the basic character you choose. They behave and sound quite differently to me, and would make apple to apple comparisons difficult. 

The Brainworx true peak sounds bandpassed to me. It also has some dirt in the midrange but doesn’t get super duper bright like Waves and Oxford can.

That's kind of how I hear it.  It seems to push the mids a bit and tuck the bass, and soften things a little bit, soft transiensts perhaps.  The high end is nice like you say.

You can bring back some bass with the Foundation knob.

What do you think of PSP Xenon?  It's on sale for $35 right now.  I don't need more limiters but I like them.