Specifications

Chapter 15: Maxim 93
Chapter 15: Maxim
Maxim is a unique and powerful peak-limiting
and sound maximizing plug-in that is available
in TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite formats. Maxim
is ideal for critical mastering applications, as
well as standard peak-limiting tasks.
Maxim offers several critical advantages over
traditional hardware-based limiters. Most sig-
nificantly, Maxim takes full advantage of the
random-access nature of disk-based recording
to anticipate peaks in audio material and pre-
serve their attack transients when performing
reduction.
This makes Maxim more transparent than con-
ventional limiters, since it preserves the charac-
ter of the original audio signal without clipping
peaks or introducing distortion.
Maxim features include:
 “Perfect attack-limiting” through look-ahead
analysis accurately preserves transient attacks
and the character of original program material.
 A full-color histogram plots input dB history
during playback and provides visual feedback
for setting threshold level.
 A user-adjustable ceiling lets material be
level-optimized for recording.
 Dither for noise shaping during the final mix-
down.
 Online Help (accessed by clicking a control
name) provides descriptions of each control.
About Peak Limiting
Peak limiting is an important element of audio
production. It is the process of preventing signal
peaks in audio material from clipping by limit-
ing their dynamic range to an absolute, user-se-
lectable ceiling and not letting them exceed this
ceiling.
Limiters let you select a threshold in decibels. If
an audio signal peak exceeds this threshold, gain
reduction is applied, and the audio is attenuated
by a user-selectable amount.
The multichannel TDM version of Maxim is
not supported at 192 kHz. Use the multi-
mono TDM or RTAS version instead.
Maxim