L3-16 User Guide
1.2 Product Overview
The Waves L3-16 Multimaximizer is a 16-band auto-summing peak limiter, the fourth processor in Waves’ acclaimed L-Series of Ultramaximizers and Multimaximizers.
Powered by an advanced version of the Waves PLMixer Peak Limiting Mixer engine, the L3-16 offers Gain and Priority controls arranged in a 6 band EQ-style interface with familiar parameters like frequency, Q, and filter-type. The L3-16 features a linear phase crossover network to deliver results that are free of phase distortion.
Similar to the Profiles used by its predecessor the L3, the L3-16 offers a wide variety of sonic flavors known as Release Characters, ranging from analog warm to digital cool. Release Characters affect the behavior of the L3-16’s ARC Automatic Release Control across the split-band spectrum.
Finally, the L3-16 features Waves IDR Increased Digital Resolution double precision bit re- quantization and 9th-order noise shaping system, for enhanced audio resolution at any setting.
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