KHS Limiter is a simple yet effective brickwall limiter designed to control peaks and prevent clipping in your audio signal.
Built as part of the Kilohearts plugin ecosystem, it focuses on delivering transparent limiting without introducing unnecessary complexity or heavy CPU usage.
With just a few key controls, producers can quickly tame loud transients, protect their master bus, or add a final layer of level control to individual tracks.
The plugin works by limiting signals that exceed a chosen threshold, ensuring the output stays within a safe level while preserving the overall balance of the sound.
By analysing the signal slightly ahead of time, Limiter ensures peaks never exceed the set ceiling. The Threshold defines the maximum allowed level, while Release controls how quickly the signal recovers after gain reduction.
This makes it easy to dial in transparent limiting for drums, buses, or the mix bus without complex setup.
Input and output gain controls let you drive the signal into the limiter or compensate level afterwards, keeping loudness decisions deliberate and predictable.
A straightforward VU-style meter shows input level, threshold position, and real-time attenuation, giving instant feedback on how hard the limiter is working. True to Kilohearts’ design philosophy, the interface is minimal, responsive, and fast to read, encouraging confident decisions rather than parameter chasing.
Limiter can be used as a standard plugin, or loaded as a Snapin inside Phase Plant, Multipass, and Snap Heap. In the modular hosts, it can be modulated and combined with other Snapins for more advanced dynamics chains while retaining the same low CPU footprint.
A lightweight limiter built for everyday use.
It works well for light peak control and loudness finishing, but it’s best paired with more advanced tools for heavy mastering tasks.
No. The design is intentionally clean and neutral, focusing on peak control rather than character.
The look-ahead design allows it to catch fast peaks cleanly without audible clipping.
Inside Kilohearts hosts, you can modulate threshold or release and combine it with other effects for dynamic, creative chains.
