Bettermaker Darth Limiter - Limited Edition Analog Mastering Limiter - Black
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All Analog Sound with the Flexibility of Digital Control
When you need premium sound quality limiting and convenience of fast and precise recall and automation, Bettermaker Darthlimiter offers 100% analog signal path, plugin recall and automation within your project, frequency dependent saturation, MS processing, enhanced metering section and a large LED touchscreen minimising clutter on your main studio screen.
What's NEW?
- Limited Edition front panel with black frame and knobs
- NEW capacitive touchscreen with improved contrast and viewing angle
- Improved audio path for lower noise and better dynamic range (Burr-Brown(TM) OPA1656 in audio path)
The front panel of the Bettermaker Darthlimiter is built around a large LCD touchscreen that allows you to control almost all functions available in the device. Apart from that, you can also monitor input/output levels, amount of gain reduction (and clipping) applied by the limiter, perform advanced measurements (FFT, LUFS, K-metering), use an on-screen QWERTY keyboard for naming your presets and more. You can even display fully configurable, analog style VU meters!
Main features
Bettermaker Darthlimiter has 3 functionalities that are essential to make a perfect master. All of them are recallable by the internal memory and a plugin that also handles automation.
Analog Bettermaker Darthlimiter:
• 100% analog signal path
• intelligent and manual release
• variable mix between limiting and clipping
• possibility to turn off the clipping section, so you can clip with you favorite AD or other.
Colour, for giving that special flavour to your mix:
• Two colour modules introducing different saturation that can be used simultaneously
• Colour 1 with Majority of odd harmonics
• Colour 2 with Majority of even harmonics
• Both colour sections can be internally EQed so for example you can present more odd harmonics in the low end to give the mix more bite and sweeten the highs with the even harmonics at the top end.
Metering is an additional screen in your studio. As it's a touchscreen it also utilizes control functions of the Bettermaker Darthlimiter. You can view your favourite set of stats.
- Input, output and reduction
- Analog style meters (VU, PPM, RMS, Peak with peak hold functionality)
- LUFS (Short term, Integral, Loudness Range, view in time)
- K metering
- 30 Band FFT analyzer
- Goniometer
- Correlation meter
- Two points of measurement, the output of the Limiter or the plugin
- and more...
Technical specifications:
Maximum input level: +21.5 dBu (balanced)
Maximum output level: +23 dBu (THD < 0.1%)
Operating Level: +4dBu
Maximum gain reduction: 20 dB
Makeup gain: automatic
Attack time: 0.1 250ms
Release time: 0.01 1.3s + IREL (intelligent release)
Input impedance (differential): 48kΩ (for balanced signal)
Output Impedance: 50Ω + 50Ω (electronically balanced)
Frequency response 5Hz to 30kHz; +/- 0.1dB
Dynamic range: 107 dB @ +21 dBu, 20 kHz BW
THD+N: < 0.03%, +4 dBu, unity gain, 20 kHz BW
CMRR: max 80 dB @ 3 kHz, min 55 dB @ 50Hz, 20 kHz BW
Crosstalk: min -90 dB @ 1KHz, max -57 dB @ 30Hz, +18 dBu, 20 kHz BW
Maximum power consumption: 30W (uses 630mA slow blow fuse)
Shipping weight: 5.5 kg
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