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Limiters, Ceilings and True Peak
What changes when the ratio reaches infinity — protecting hardware, chasing loudness, and the peaks your meter cannot see.
Take a compressor's ratio all the way to ∞:1 and something categorical changes. It stops reducing the difference between loud and quiet and starts enforcing an absolute rule: nothing gets past this line. That is a limiter, and it is the same circuit with the most extreme setting of one control.
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