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Description

Discover the limitless potential of your music with the FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin. This powerhouse tool is a must-have for any mastering or mixing engineer, offering an unrivaled blend of loudness and transparency. With its eight distinct limiting algorithms, Pro-L 2 provides a versatile suite of tools, ensuring the perfect touch for any genre or style. Whether you're refining an EDM track or fine-tuning a classical arrangement, this plugin delivers pristine sound quality without compromising clarity.

The Pro-L 2 stands out with its true peak limiting mode, which safeguards your audio from distortion during D/A conversion—a crucial feature for those running hot mixes. It also boasts extensive loudness metering compliant with industry standards like EBU R128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4, keeping your mixes in check across various platforms. For those working in surround sound, the Pro-L 2 supports Dolby Atmos 7.0.2 and 7.1.2 formats, making it an ideal choice for complex audio environments.

The redesigned interface is sleek and intuitive, allowing for a fast workflow. With features like 32x linear-phase oversampling and sophisticated dithering options, the Pro-L 2 ensures top-notch sound quality. Plus, its real-time level display provides crucial insights into gain reduction, making it easier to achieve the desired sound.

Key Features:

  • Eight unique limiting algorithms for diverse applications
  • True peak limiting for distortion-free audio during D/A conversion
  • Extensive loudness metering compliant with EBU R128, ITU-R BS.1770-4, and ATSC A/85 standards
  • Surround sound support, including Dolby Atmos 7.0.2 and 7.1.2 formats
  • 32x linear-phase oversampling for superior sound quality
  • Real-time level display with innovative modes
  • Optional DC offset filter and external sidechain triggering
  • Redesigned interface for an efficient workflow
  • Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
  • Compatible with macOS and Windows in VST, VST3, AU, AAX Native formats

Owner's manual

FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin User Manual

Product specs

Software Type Limiter
Platform Mac, PC
Upgrade/Full Full
Download/Boxed Download
Bit Depth 64-bit
Format AAX Native, VST, VST3, AU, AudioSuite, CLAP
Hardware Requirements - Mac Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
Hardware Requirements - PC Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
OS Requirements - Mac macOS 10.13 or later
OS Requirements - PC Windows 7 SP1 or later

FAQs

Is the FabFilter Pro-L 2 a true peak limiter?

Yes, the FabFilter Pro-L 2 is a true peak limiter, designed to prevent inter-sample peaks and ensure your audio doesn't clip in any playback system.

What audio formats does the FabFilter Pro-L 2 support?

The FabFilter Pro-L 2 supports AAX Native, VST, VST3, AU, AudioSuite, and CLAP formats, making it compatible with a wide range of DAWs.

Can the FabFilter Pro-L 2 be used on both Mac and PC?

Yes, the FabFilter Pro-L 2 is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, requiring macOS 10.13 or later for Mac and Windows 7 SP1 or later for PC.

What are the system requirements for running FabFilter Pro-L 2 on a Mac?

To run FabFilter Pro-L 2 on a Mac, you'll need at least an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM, with macOS 10.13 or later.

Does the FabFilter Pro-L 2 offer loudness metering features?

Yes, the FabFilter Pro-L 2 includes extensive loudness metering features, allowing you to monitor and control the loudness of your audio precisely.

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Introduction to FabFilter Pro-L 2 limiter

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Introduction to FabFilter Pro-L 2 limiter

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FabFilter Pro L 2 Mastering 10 Tips

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FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Tutorial - Everything You Need to Know

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How to Set Up and Use FabFilter's Pro-L 2 Limiter to Master Your Music

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FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter | Overview | Top 5 Features Review

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Plugin Boutique

Reviews

PROS

  • Intuitive and user-friendly interface with extensive visual feedback for easy learning

  • High-quality sound with transparent limiting, even at high loudness levels

  • Efficient CPU usage allows seamless integration into projects without performance issues

  • Versatile with many modes suitable for various mastering purposes

  • Consistently stable updates ensure compatibility with new operating systems

  • Excellent visual aids for non-experts to understand audio signal changes

  • Look-ahead function enhances mastering precision

  • Comprehensive loudness metering for precise sound control

  • Significant improvement over standard DAW limiters in sound quality

  • Praised for its clean, powerful sound, ideal for mastering chains

CONS

  • Lacks a loudness comparison function found in some competitors

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Based on 18 Reviews and 162 Ratings

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bizzyworks

Limiting without limits

Like any other fabfilter plugin the first thing that stands out is the beautiful user interface. The visuals in this plugin are so helpful, especially if you're not a limiting expert you can see very clearly what is happening to your audio signal. Not going into all the different functions of this plugin i'm going to say this limiter can sound very transparant and can go very loud without clipping. Although it doesn't have the loudness comparison function the Slate Digital FG-X which is fantastic the fabfilter limiter has my vote. I tried the sonnox limiter, fg-x and some of the well known UAD plugs but the fantastic interface and clean sound make this my go to limiter.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
subtact

My Maximizer

The best ending to your mastering chain I think you could choose. (This is coming from someone who purchased and used Waves L3 for over two years.) So transparent and powerful, you can really do a lot with loudness using FF's L2!

G

One of the cleanest and most effective plugins I know of

Well, pretty much all Fabfilter plugins are pretty awesome, amazingly easy to use, and you get a lot of visual feedback on the screen in regards your settings changes. So it actually even helps to learn more about compression and limiting.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
peter_schips

Fabfilter Pro L2

Loud and clear

A true peak limiter is an essential tool for every mastering or mixing engineer. Are you looking for a professional, feature-packed limiter that is loud and transparent at the same time, equipped with extensive loudness metering? Then FabFilter Pro-L 2 is your weapon of choice!

axvard

FabFilter Pro-L Limiter Plugin

A brickwall limiter is an essential tool for every mastering or mixing engineer. Are you looking for a professional, feature-packed limiter that is loud and transparent at the same time? Then FabFilter Pro-L is your weapon of choice!

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
glcrs

Amazing Limiter

A really amazing limiter, works like a charm.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
buzzard

Fabfilter Limiter

I limit my tracks with the Fabfilter Pro L

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
refive

Great master channel limiter

I always use this on my master channel. Great for loudening your sound just before you reach that point it begins to distort.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
wagner

Great limiter to maximize your sound

When you use it to insert mixer, your track will be stronger. When using master file, your track will be a super massive one.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1
adamfiregate

great limiter

This is my main limiter at the end of the master chain. It has a very nice clean sound.

Version: FabFilter Pro-L 1

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See how Mike Shinoda uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

Mike Shinoda

Singer, Guitarist

Linkin Park

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In a livestream titled "4.1.20 - Today's CoronaJam: A Hybrid Theory-style demo," Mike Shinoda uses the FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin. This session is part of his YouTube series, Shinoda Livestreams.

See how Noisia uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

Noisia

Music Producer

Noisia & Pacific

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At 20:31 in this video, Fab Filter Pro-L can be seen on the left hand monitor in Noisia's studio

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KSHMR

Composer, Music Producer

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Used on "Lessons of KSHMR"

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Firebeatz

Music Producer

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At 33m49s in Firebeatz' "In The Studio" video, the FabFilter Pro-L is the fourth plugin from the bottom (inactive) on the Master channel at the far right.

See how Kill The Noise uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

Kill The Noise

Music Producer

ARE WE DREAMING

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See how MAKJ uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

MAKJ

Music Producer, DJ

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MAKJ shows he uses FabFilter's Pro-L Limiter Plugin to master his tracks.

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3LAU

Music Producer

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This Plugin can be seen at 1:08 in this YouTube video.

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Andrew Huang

Singer, Guitarist

First Of October

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(@2:00) "simple mastering chain on this patch: polyverse wider to give us some stereo spread, and fabfilter pro-l 2 for a gain boost and gentle limiting"

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Virtual Riot

Music Producer, DJ

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at 25:39 you can see his list of fabfilter plugins

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Mick Gordon

Guitarist, Composer

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This plugin can be seen in this Instagram post by Mick Gordon at 00:04, in his effects rack.

See how Justin Bieber uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

Justin Bieber

Singer, Composer

Young Artists for Haiti

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Used on "Love Yourself", as stated by Purpose mix engineers Josh Gudwin and Andrew Wuepper in this May 2016 Sound on Sound interview about the mixing of the title track and others.

Gudwin picks out a few other interesting tracks, beginning with a vocal track named ‘vcls’. “That track contains a vocal sample that Blood made of Justin’s vocal. I’m just touching that with the LFO Tool for a bit of pumping, I take out some high frequencies with the Pro-Q 2, and then use the SoundToys Microshift for a slight pitch-shift/chorusing effect. ‘Sry1V’ below that is the vinyl sound in the track. ‘$JBU’ is the main lead vocal bus, on which I have the UAD 1176, Waves De-Esser, Manley Massive Passive, Metric Halo Channel Strip. The sends are to the generic aux tracks at the bottom of the sesion: verb, ping-pong delay, Dimension D. Below the lead vocal bus is the print track of a Bricasti outboard.”

Wuepper: “There are two tracks called ‘Bric’ around the main vocal bus; the one above is the print from the Bricasti effect that was used on the percussion, and the one below is the print of the Bricasti reverb on the vocal. Next are Josh’s vocal delays. Putting delays on audio snippets [ie. copying short vocal clips to new tracks and applying delays as inserts, rather than automating a send from the main vocal track] is a pretty interesting way of doing things. I’ve not seen anyone else do this, but it makes it easier for Josh to manipulate these delays and to go deeper into the effect. He can really fine tune the delay times and decay lengths and so on. Sometimes the feedback you get with plug-ins can act a little weird, and this approach allows him to have more control.”

Gudwin: “The five green tracks are all vocal throws and delays. I don’t like to automate delay throws via aux tracks. The top green track is the master track for the delays, ‘JB Throw All’, and it has a compressor and an SPL Vitalizer. The ‘1147’ delay track has the UAD Cooper Time Cube, with a quick ping-pong-y flutter delay that I use to widen, and the track called ‘1167’ has a basic eighth-note delay from the Echo Boy. The ‘A’ insert is Auto-Tune, but it’s not working on these tracks. When needed, our vocal tuning is normally done by Chris ‘Tek’ O’Ryan in Melodyne. I sometimes do it myself, if I have the time do it, in the stand-alone version.

“The blue vocal tracks below the vocal delay tracks are the main lead vocal comp tracks, and on many of them I have the UAD SSL Channel Strip, UAD LA-2A, and the Waves C6 multiband compressor, and sometimes also the Pro-Q 2 EQ. The ‘DLYP’ track has a delay pan effect, with the SoundToys Primal Tap delay and Panman auto-panner, SSL Channel Strip and the P&M Vinylizer. ‘White’ and ‘Master’ are printed reverbs recorded in two rooms at Henson. They are my main plug-in vocal reverbs, and the green tracks below are pitched with the Elastic Audio X-Form [in Pro Tools] and effected with the Waves H-Compressor for a pumping effect. I pitched the reverbs up an octave or two, and I mixed them in very low. The ‘PCM’ and ‘PC1’ tracks are prints from ping-pong delays from the Lexicon PCM42 outboard.

“Justin’s backing vocal tracks all go to the group track called ‘JBG1’, on which I have a Waves De-esser, an SSL Channel and the C6 multiband compressor, plus there are a number of delays and reverbs via the sends. Trevon’s backing vocals all go to ‘JBTR’, which has similar effects. I wanted to fill the song up a bit more, and sometimes it’s not the most enjoyable process for an artist to sing all these background parts. Plus a different vocalist will add a different texture to the song, as long as it complements the lead vocal and the record. As I mentioned, Julia added her vocals during the final mix in New York, and her group track also has the De-esser, SSl Channel and C6. Right at the bottom are some effects tracks, with the Dimension D and group delay throws, and so on.

(...) 'Love Yourself'

(...) Next are Justin’s vocals, with I overdubbed in New York. Almost all the regular vocal tracks have the UAD SSL Channel, LA2 and the Waves C6 multiband compressor. These three plug-ins work great on his vocals, so I tend to stick with them. Each of the vocal tracks has slightly different settings from them. They all go to Justin’s lead vocal bus above them, which has the FabFilter Pro-DS de-esser and the Pro-2 EQ. Justin’s lead vocals also go through the Bricasti, and the effect is printed. My own four backing vocals went through a vocal bus on which I had the SSL Channel, and a compressor, but they didn’t do much, nor did the sends. These vocals are very much in the background, I just wanted to add some texture really quickly. Finally, at the top of the session everything went through a Master track, on which I had the UAD SSL channel, mainly for compression set to mid-attack and auto-release — without drums you don’t need the slow attack and quick release — a Massey EQ, boosting 100Hz and 16kHz, a FabFilter Pro-L for level, and the Sonnox Oxford Inflator to add some sheen.”

'What Do You Mean?'

(...) “There were a few more complicated vocal effects, like the ‘JG FX’ track, on which I used the Vitalizer doing some spatial expanding, a UAD Fatso to thicken it up, and I then cut some low mids with an EQ, and used a de-esser. This effect track gave more depth to the vocal and made him sound more like an angel! Underneath that are two ‘Radio’ tracks [which sound like they could have come straight from Peter Gabriel’s ’80s Fairlight experiments]. I used Auto-Tune to pitch the vocals up, and then put on a SoundToys AlterBoy, which changed the formant, and then I’m filtering 350Hz and below.

“Below the ‘radio’ tracks are all my vocal delay tracks, in green as usual, with the bus for all delay throws at the top. One delay track, ‘Splaater’, is a flutter delay with Auto-Tune and the Cooper Time Cube, and the other two have the Waves H-Delay and SoundToys Echo Boy. They’re both quarter-note delays, but with different feels. Below the delay tracks are some ad lib tracks, and all the actual lead vocals, pulled out over several tracks. Most of them have my regular trio of UAD SSL Channel, LA2 and Waves C6 plug-ins, and all vocals are sent to the ‘JB Buss’, on which I have the FabFilter DS de-esser, a Manley EQ doing light cuts at 330Hz, 560Hz and 3kHz, and then a whole bunch of sends to my regular aux tracks at the bottom: a hall reverb, a plate reverb, a light quarter-inch delay, a light ping-pong delay and a Dimension D.

“Further down are four Justin backing vocal tracks, which go to a bus above them, ‘JBG1’, on which I have the SSL Channel, boosting highs and cutting lows and doing some heavy compression, a UAD 33609 compressor, and then the Waves Enigma [phaser/flanger] on a Mutron setting, adding some sweeping sounds. The sends are once again hall and plate reverbs, a quarter-note and a ping-pong delay and a UAD Roland Dimension D. Once Justin had decided to go with my rough mix, I spent another half hour on it, doing some EQ adjustments, and that was it.”

See how George Daniel uses FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

George Daniel

Drummer, Composer

The 1975

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In the Tape Notes Podcast video, George Daniel is shown using the FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin on a stem from Charli XCX's "Club Classics" during a Logic session unpacking.

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