Brick Wall Limiter

[heavyfunkmachin]

Hi!

I am looking for a brick wall limiter, in a stomp box shape.... I'm using a looper (eye of god kind of thing) to create monster sounds, but volume spikes just go trough the roof with this thing... I'm not talking about hard-slaping levels, i'm talking about speaker-blowing ear-piercening volumes here... (think delays and distortions with parametric eq going crazy into a signal loop )

So I need to control this thing. Do you know of a reliable stomp box wall brick limiter? (oh! and the cheaper the better!!)

(p.s. yes I know about ovni lab )

[chessrocks]

The new MXR M-87 would give you the functionality you're looking for. Very fast attack times, and exceptional control and metering over all other parameters.

[heavyfunkmachin]

yeah, and it looks awesome. In fact, like $190 of awesomess...

[SoonerMatt]

The MXR M87 and Aguilar TLC will be your best bets. You get what you pay for, yo.

[chessrocks]

Originally Posted by heavyfunkmachin

yeah, and it looks awesome. In fact, like $190 of awesomess...

Well, you did say you wanted to create "monster sounds" that will "go through the roof" with ear-piercing, speaker-blowing, mind-numbing volumes that will wreak sizemik waves of destruction and carnage ... killing all innocent bystanders who aren't careful.

If you're willing to settle for "small varmint" sounds that might make an occasional apartment wall shake, and you want it done on the dirt cheap ... then just get a Behringer pedal, pray for the best and call it a day.

[bigchiefbc]

The Boss LMB-3 is actually a very good peak limiter. Just turn the "enhance" knob all the way down, the ratio knob all the way up, and then set the threshold where you want the brick wall point to be. One of the main things I used to use it for was to tame my delay pedals in runaway feedback freakout mode.

[runmikeyrun]

I had the behringer bass limiter/enhancer. I bought it for the same reason you need it- I had a bunch of free oscillating effects and I would get crazy volume spikes. It's cheap and may do the job, but the enhancer can change the tone a little bit, and there's no way to bypass just the enhancer. If i had to say if it actually did the job i'd say yes. Brick wall? Not quite. But for $30 you can give it a shot.