Limiter

Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series

Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series is a collection of free VST audio plugins made by Kjaerhus Audio.

The Audio Classic Serie is a bundle of Kjaerhus 9 Classic Serie mixing and mastering audio plugins. Including the classic auto-filter, chorus, compressor, delay, EQ, flanger, limiter, phaser and reverb. The classic serie goal is to emulate the warm and rich sound of vintage high end analog gear from the 70’s and 80’s eras. Kjaerhus unique “Warmth & Saturation” algorithms will give your sound a sweet and lively analog color. And it’s totally free !

Including:

Chorus
Compressor
Limiter
Delay
EQ
Phaser, flanger
Reverb
Auto-Filter

W1 Limiter

W1 Limiter is a free limiter VST, VST3, Audio Unit, RTAS plugin developed by 4Front Technologies. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

W1 Limiter is a “brickwall limiter” that is a clone of Waves L1-Ultramaximizer, with “identical output” and an approximation of Waves L2.

Waves’ L1 (and thus W1 – for compatibility reasons) uses three times longer actual release time than the standard RT60 metric. This means that if you set 50ms release in the limiter, it will actually yield with 150ms standard RT60 release time, but users of L1 should be familiar with it.

Starting from version 2.0 W1 Limiter also contains adaptive release logic. The author tried to emulate Waves L2, however could only do this approximately. Also, unlike Waves, W1 allows changing release time while in adaptive mode.

Waves IDR dithering is not emulated.

http://www.4front-tech.com/

W1 Limiter (BBA)

W1 Limiter (BBA) is a free limiter VST plugin developed by BetabugsAudio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The BetabugsAudio edition of George Yohng’s W1 Limiter takes the same limiting engine and gives it a new interface. The W1 interface follows the BetabugsAudio tradition of simplicity and elegance, while providing an inspiring appearance that matches the plug-in’s form to its function.

http://www.betabugsaudio.com/

TSClip

TSClip is a free limiter and clipper VST plugin developed by Signaldust. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

TSClip is a saturation and clipping plugin. The saturation is designed to subtly warm low-frequencies, while the clipper utilizes some spectral shaping in order to make distortion less obvious.

http://www.signaldust.com

TLs Pocket Limiter

TLs Pocket Limiter is a free limiter VST plugin developed by TbT. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Features:

Transparent Brickwall Limiting with 0 db stop.

Variable knee from 0% to 100% to keep limiting distortion at a minimum.

“IQ” mode to get a more “intelligent” release from the knee with program emphasis.

Low latency for live performance use (40 samples at 44.1khz = ca 1ms latency).

Stereo link to preserve stereo field.

Supported samplerates: 44.1khz – 192khz.

http://hem.bredband.net/tbtaudio/

ThrillseekerVBL

ThrillseekerVBL is a free limiter VST plugin developed by Variety Of Sound. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

ThrillseekerVBL – Vintage Broadcast Limiter – is an emulation of a “vintage broadcast limiter” following the classic Variable-Mu design principles from the early 1950’s. They were used to prevent audio overshoots by managing sudden signals changes. From today’s perspective, and compared to brickwall limiters, they are rather slow and should be seen as more of a gain structure leveler, but they still are shining when it comes to perform gain riding in a very musical fashion – they have warmth and mojo written all over.

Thrillseeker VBL is a “modded” version, which not only has the classic gain reduction controls but also grants detailed access to the amount and appearance of harmonic tube amplifier distortion occurring in the analog tube circuit. Applied in subtle doses, this dials in that analog magic we often miss when working in the digital domain, but you can also overdrive the circuit to have more obvious but still musical sounding harmonic distortion (and according side-effects) for use as a creative effect.

On top, Thrillseeker VBL offers an incredibly authentic audio transformer simulation which not only models the typical low-end harmonic distortion but also all the frequency and load dependent subtleties occurring in a transformer coupled tube circuit, and which add up to that typical mojo we know from the analog classics. This would not have been possible with plain waveshaping techniques but has been realized with my innovative Stateful Saturation approach, making it possible to model circuits having a (short) sort of memory.

https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/

T-RackS CS

T-RackS CS is a free multi fx and overdrive and saturation and bit crusher and crunch and panner and pitch shifter and phaser and flanger and eq and compressor and limiter and amp simulator and filter VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by IK Multimedia. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Close your eyes and picture a store full of cool, powerful processing gear including compressors, limiters, reverbs, de-essers, multiband processors, and a shelf full of vintage, legendary gear emulations. In short, a dream store for recording musicians, engineers and producers.

It is not just a fantasy. This store is real and it’s available to you 24/7. In the T-RackS 5 Custom Shop you can browse a huge collection of IK’s high-quality processing plug-ins for mixing and mastering and purchase only the ones you want, when you want them. And the best part is, you can get started for free.

Features

Free version of T-RackS including the Custom Shop, the Classic EQ and basic Metering functionality.

Standalone workstation, plugin suite and single plugins for Audio Units, VST2, VST3 and AAX formats.

Custom Shop functionality lets you purchase additional modules from inside the program.

T-RackS shell allows for chaining of up to 16 processors.

Standalone integration with ARC System 2.5 processing.

All processors available as individual plug-ins.

64-bit native support.

High-fidelity oversampling for high-quality audio processing through the entire signal path.

SCC technology coupled with IK’s unique DSM technology provides the most realistic software emulation of vintage gear to date.

Extremely easy to use, with style-based presets, full chain visualization, one-click single module or chain bypass, “compare” function and more.

What’s new

4 new processors available for separate purchase: Master Match, Dyna-Mu, ONE, EQual.

Resizable*, redesigned interface and plugin GUIs.

Expandable broadcast-ready metering suite*.

Floating meters option*.

Chains of up to 16 processors.

Album Assembly section with waveform editing and metadata*.

Enhanced audio engine.

Up to 192 kHz/32-bit floating point*.

4 dithering algorithms.

Equal gain option*.

Signature presets from the industry’s top engineers*.

* Features available by upgrading to T-RackS 5, T-RackS 5 Deluxe or T-RackS 5 MAX. T-RackS 5 CS supports projects up to 48kHz and features basic metering functions. Presets require specific modules which might not be part of this version of T-RackS 5. You can however download any processor for free and test them for 14 days before purchase.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/

Signal Noise SN05-G Brickwall Limiter

Signal Noise SN05-G Brickwall Limiter is a free limiter VST plugin developed by Sender Spike. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

SN05-G, as its full name implies, is a brickwall (sample peak) limiter, best suited for the very end of the signal chain, but can easily handle also individual tracks.

Features:

3 stages: limiter, soft clipper, hard clipper.

input gain 0-24 dB.

ceiling from 0 dBFS to -24 dBFS.

limiter attack time from 0.02 ms to 250 ms.

limiter release time from 10 ms to 1300 ms.

hard clipper release time from 1 ms to 500 ms (limiter on) or 0.1 ms to 50 ms (limiter off).

fixed hard clipper attack time.

optional soft clipping stage adjustable from 0% to 100% (0% = off).

optional HPF for limiter’s side-chain with cutoff frequency ranging from 15 Hz to 2 kHz.

limiter bypass (signal passes only through the clippers).

Dual GR meter (limit/clip).

https://senderspike.wordpress.com/

ReaJS

ReaJS is a free multi fx and echo and delay and compressor and limiter and distortion VST plugin developed by Cockos. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

ReaJS is a real-time user-editable effect processor.

Features:

64-bit internal audio processing, MIDI support, full PDC support, multichannel I/O support, graphics display support.

Hundreds of included effects, including: delays, compressors, limiters, convolution, distortion, spectral noise editors, analyzers, loop samplers, creative effects.

Create new effects from scratch, or modify existing effects to meet your needs.

JS editor and debugger included, opens automatically when you edit a plug-in.

http://www.cockos.com/

Punchotic

Punchotic is a free limiter VST plugin developed by RunBeerRun. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Punchotic is a zero latency limiter that can enhance the transients for a punchy sound.

https://runbeerrun.blogspot.com/