Signum Audio Bute Limiter 2 Stereo — Free Download

Purpose

BUTE Limiter 2 is a high-fidelity, ultra-transparent True Peak brickwall limiter designed to prevent inter-sample overs while preserving your audio’s natural character. Its core mission is eliminating distortion without adding coloration, making it suitable for critical mastering and mixing tasks.

The plugin offers a streamlined user interface that can be expanded for in-depth analysis or kept compact. It focuses on retaining the dynamics and clarity of your source material, providing a clean yet detailed tool for loudness control.

Key Capabilities

At its heart is a novel overshoot-proof brickwall limiting algorithm complemented by high-quality linear phase upsampling. An advanced adaptive auto release, along with five different release curves, gives you flexibility in shaping the limiter’s response to various program material.

The plugin includes Pre-Gain and Post-Gain stages, as well as automatic Max Target functionality. Pre-Gain pushes or reduces the incoming signal before limiting, while Post-Gain applies gain after the limiter, allowing you to choose between a maximizer-style workflow or a makeup-gain approach.

Workflow

The interactive history view is a standout feature, showing true peak, gain reduction, threshold, and output readings over time. You can zoom in on specific sections or get an overview, and it supports automatic DAW sync and re-metering. When you adjust limiter settings, the history updates to reflect how the new settings would alter your audio.

The plugin offers three layouts: a resizable history view, a vertical metering view, and a compact horizontal control view. This lets you tailor the interface to your workspace, whether you need detailed analysis or a minimal footprint. A warning system flags any True Peak overshoots introduced via Post-Gain, helping you maintain compliance.

Practical Applications

BUTE Limiter 2 supports multiple workflows. You can push the limiter via Pre-Gain to boost overall loudness while maintaining dynamics and clarity, similar to a maximizer. Alternatively, you can limit your signal and then use Post-Gain to make up for volume changes, which is useful in mixing or mastering chains.

The flexible display configuration—highlighting either limiter output or overall output with Post-Gain—lets you monitor exactly what you need. It’s ideal for mastering engineers seeking transparency, as well as mixing engineers who need precise true peak control without compromising the material’s natural dynamics.

Key features

• Ultra-transparent True Peak brickwall limiting with overshoot-proof algorithm
• High-quality linear phase upsampling
• Advanced adaptive auto release and five release curves
• Pre-Gain, Post-Gain, and automatic Max Target functionality
• Three layouts: resizable history view, vertical metering, compact horizontal control
• Automatic DAW sync and re-metering to reflect adjustments
• History for True Peak, True Peak Output, Threshold, and Gain Reduction
• Warning system for Post-Gain overshoots

Best for

Mastering and mixing engineers who need transparent True Peak limiting to prevent overs without coloring the audio. Its flexible gain staging and detailed history view make it suitable for critical loudness control, whether you prefer a maximizer-style approach or precise makeup gain.