Wusik offers the Wusik Limiter (normally $49.95) for macOS and Windows as a free download until November 1st.
You might have already grabbed a bargain limiter this month with Plugin Boutique’s 1176 bundle deal: all three UAD 1176 plugins for £38 (usually £261). If you’re interested in the UAD collection, act fast; it’s a limited-time offer.
But if not, there’s no need to worry; thanks to Wusik, you can pick up a free limiter right here.
The Wusik Limiter is free for a limited time; it usually costs $49.95.
The offer ends on November 1st, so you’ve got lots of time, but if you miss deals as often as I do, you shouldn’t hesitate.
To download the free limiter, you agree to subscribe to the Wusik weekly newsletter (you can unsubscribe later if you choose to).
The Wusik Limiter is a straightforward limiter plugin with a 10 ms look-ahead.
The 10 ms look-ahead function anticipates potential problem transients before they clip, ensuring a pristine mix.
If you’re looking for an easy-to-use limiter to throw on the end of your mastering chain or tackle some wayward vocals or percussion, the Wusik Limiter might be just what you need.
We use limiters for a few reasons: primarily to prevent clipping, maximize volume, and uniform loudness.
Sometimes, it’s easy to lose track of musicality when we are focused on such practical tasks. But it’s important to make decisions musically rather than purely utilitarian; otherwise, it can go very wrong, very fast.
Limiters also teach us a much-needed lesson in restraint at times.
Being heavy-handed with a limiter is a sure way to drain the life out of your music, leaving it flat and underwhelming.
On the flip side, getting it right can take your track from a bedroom project to something ready to compete with the masses.
The Wusick limiter only has a few controls to speak of and no surprises: Input Gain, Threshold, Attack, Hold, Release, and Out Gain.
Careful tweaking of the Attack and Release knobs is pivotal in getting the desired results while remaining as transparent as possible. Wusik designed the plugin to be transparent and preserve your dynamic range.
I started with a UAD deal, so I’ll end with another; remember, there are just a couple of weeks left to get the Century Tube Channel Strip free ($199 value).
Wusik Limiter is available in 64-bit AU, VST2, and VST3 formats for macOS and Windows.
Download: Wusik Limiter (FREE)
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22 Comments
mx
onwhat is a ten second lookahead time good for? can anybody construct a technical case where this would be sensible?
i mean maybe soundwise this could be funny for chaotic generative experimental whatever things, but the latency in the project would be ridiculously annoying.
mx
onok, i could have checked the wusik website before commenting: it is actually 10 milliseconds lookahead.
thats more reasonable, though i prefer to adjust the lookahead time myself, depending on the material and purpose of limiting.
that is not possible with this limiter, it is always fixed 10ms which also means it is always 10ms of latency.
and for those interested in the plugin:
i personally find the newsletter of this developer slightly too much in some ways. i dont remember how often they send newsletters, but it was too often for me and the content was just not suitable for me, often it was trying to convince people to buy things by telling you about personal problems.
i mean that products should be sold by making them good and stand out and then telling people about the specifications and the advantages of the product.
and i think that this plugin is overpriced at 50$ when compared to other products on the market. not being able to adjust the lookahead is one of the reasons for that in my opinion. also it doesnt say anything about oversampling. and the oversampling – if included – should be adjustable as well.
as long as it is free all that is not a problem, but i think this and many of the other plugins of this developer are not worth their full price.
Tomislav Zlatic
onOops! I fixed the info in the article (changed to ms).
James Nugent
onHey mx, that’s on me, long day, and a pretty glaring oversight haha. Thanks for the fix.
MRugaW
onYeah, totally agree on your point. Wusik newsletters were mostly about negging customers into buy products or too much complaining about personal struggles. I don’t mean to be Indifferent, we all have problems and there is an appropriate platform to air out those problems. Unfortunately, product marketing emails isn’t one of them. That’s why I too, had to unsubscribe from them. Peace.
Numanoid
onWho would buy this at full price 49.95 ?
MRugaW
onMy sentiments exactly. It looks to me like a standard Limiter that comes as a stock plugin of any DAW. Not worth the $50 price tag in my opinion.
Chris Kelley
onThank you for the details on this and the useful info for people like myself that don’t have a music education background. I really appreciate that. I feel more inclined to learn about limiters now after reading what you said. I am looking forward to checking out the look ahead function too.
Thank you! Maybe I will see you with your MPC one day!
Ralf H
onJust get LoudMax for free or TDR Limiter for pennies when on sale and avoid endless spamming from this guy.
Just my 2c.
Chris Kelley
onThanks for the LoudMax tip. Gold!
Wyley
onYou do not want this guy to have your email address. It’s like the Hotel California, you can never leave.
Numanoid
onI was a fan of Wusik up until volume 6/7, but beyond that during the last 10-15 years, just been many new products, for the most part buggy, that don’t get fixed, instead more new buggy products are released
William should transfer Wusik to the Kontakt platform, then he would have a stable platform to build on.
PT
onUnfortunately my experience is the same.
Lucas
onI’m not gonna get into plugin delay compensation in 2024, standard pricing vs Limiter features, or anything mentioned above, and instead just throw in that, it seems like people forget that, with sites that require sign-up of some sort, when there’s no workaround, it only takes 2.8678 seconds to create a burner email address. I use Guerrilla Mail, with a comfortable temporary inbox window, but there’s plenty of other ones that work just fine.
Sven
on“Price” is not the same as “value”.
alex
onThat’s exactly what I wanted to say :) In today’s world that’s true more than ever.
Tomislav Zlatic
onI updated that section. :)
alex
onBTW, just like George Yohng’s W1 limiter, Press Play Wave Breaker was also updated in July:
Key Updates
-Improved saturation algorithm: Major enhancements to the saturation algorithm and anti-aliasing filtering provide better sound quality and reduce unwanted distortion to a minimum.
-Correct Limiting of Peaks: In some cases, peaks exceeded the defined threshold. This is now fixed. Peaks stay below the threshold even at high saturation levels.
-Pro Tools Support: Wave Breaker now supports Pro Tools (AAX) on both macOS and Windows.
-Discontinuation of VST2: Please note that VST2 support has been discontinued.
Additional Features
-Custom color hue option
-Continuous resizing of the plug-in window
Lucas
onGood to know. Thanks. :)
Numanoid
onWusik EVE (Electronic Vintage Ensemble) is to me a proper product by Wusik. It got 4 Sample Playback Layers that can load many formats, including SFZ and SF2.
Synthmaster 3 has just been launched, a plugin that can edit multi samples, to be saved as SFZ format.
So soundfont is not dead, and Wusik EVE can as such be a useful VST player of that format.
Wing Yee
onThanks Numanoid! SFZ and SF2 still have the best sounding samples in my opinion, but there are only a few good players, I just downloaded the demo free of Wusik EVE and will give a run.
eki
onLoodmax is better than this.