Brickwall Limiter Talk: Overshoot?!

Why is it bad, and how to get around it?

It tends to distort cheaper playback systems. Get around it by using a limiter that stops ISPs like Boz’s The Wall or Waves L2. If your music will be converted to MP3, set your output ceiling to -1dBFS so that ISPs aren’t created in the conversion.

This article explains it well:
http://www.musictech.net/2012/09/10mm-no211-inter-sample-peaks/

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