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Oh. Yes, I see it now. Weird that that does not appear to happen at all with music.
This is not trivial to fix... I'll have a listen tomorrow to see if it actually sounds better with Hear (but I assume you already did that?)
It is better since limiter on 'hear' normaly maintain peek level, how it should be, where you set it (thresh). When it's not on 'hear' (how you should normally use it in preset), peek level is all over the place.
Well, this is where things get weird. When I tested it on music, the difference was very small - the biggest difference that I saw over 2 minutes of audio with 10 dB of limiting was maybe 0.2 dB. On this sine wave test, the difference was massive - but just a sine wave won't cause distortion later in the chain because there's nothing to distort. The bass itself isn't louder than it would have been without limiting, even though the peak level is higher.
So this leaves 2 questions:
- Ignoring what you see in peak level, what sounds better? The sine wave itself won't sound louder without Hear, but it will have fewer harmonics. Which could very well be a good thing?
- Possible issue: What happens with a sine wave and highs and nothing in between? Because I expect a sine wave with an empty area a few hundred Hz above it and audio above that to act this same way.
All i expect from limiter is to peek level at value where i set it. It's not much about sound as maintainig peek level for rest of chain. For example i want to add Bass clipper after that MB, i usually protect that clipper from MB so it will always maintain same amout of clipping. But if limiter with sudden louder input translate that to bigger peek level then my clipper is done.