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If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
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This does not affect your statutory rights.
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If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 50 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
The SSL X-Limit is a versatile audio-limiting tool that allows you to increase the loudness of your tracks and buses without clipping or changing tonal balance. Take control of peaks and tame unwanted transients in the production of full and dynamic recordings, so you can achieve loud mixes while retaining a sense of subtlety and emotion.
Offering four distinct characteristics ranging from extremely transparent to colour and glue, variable release times with auto release, and a true peak and lookahead algorithm for precision processing, X-Limit proves itself to be useful in a huge variety of contexts. Use X-Limit as an invisible loudness enhancer or a characterful limiter to add colour. Furthermore, thanks to its intelligent algorithms, X-limit boasts minimal latency regardless of settings, making it suitable for tracking and live performance applications.
Unique steering and ducking meters provide a powerful insight into the influence of the limiting process on your signal and provide feedback on minimising stereo degradation using channel link control. On top of this, the all-in-one waveform and threshold display helps you set your threshold and ceiling against the incoming signal level easily.
Product Ref: 247877
X-Limit comes with four carefully designed limiter characteristics for easy and distinctive changes in sound and tone. The four styles are transparent, glue, punch, and auto. Transparent is a non-invasive style, and avoids pumping or colouration to stay true to the original sound. Glue is tailored to bus and group processing, and adds "glue" that helps the individual elements in groups sound as if they exist within the same sonic context. Punch introduces pumping and flavour while holding back on distortion. Auto automatically adjusts the attack of the limiter based on the transient content of the signal and adapts to your signal in real time.
Switching on the Lookahead option introduces an internal latency that allows the limiter to look ahead at the incoming signal and catch peaks. The advanced fade-in Lookahead algorithm catches transients more smoothly. Moreover, each preset characteristic influences lookahead in a unique way that introduces minimal latency, so you can find the sound that works for you with ease.
Engage SSL's true peak algorithm to ensure that inter-sample peaks are effectively limited thanks to intelligent oversampling. When True Peak is enabled, the current and maximum true peak values are metered in the top section of the GUI. This true peak meter shows you inter-sample peak values, and the intelligent algorithms within X-Limiter pick them out and make sure they don't clip.
