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L3-16 User Guide
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1.2 Product Overview
The Waves L3-16 Multimaximizer is a 16-band auto-summing peak limiter, the fourth processor in
Waves’ acclaimed L-Series of Ultramaximizers and Multimaximizers.
Powered by an advanced version of the Waves PLMixer Peak Limiting Mixer engine, the L3-16 offers
Gain and Priority controls arranged in a 6 band EQ-style interface with familiar parameters like
frequency, Q, and filter-type. The L3-16 features a linear phase crossover network to deliver results that
are free of phase distortion.
Similar to the Profiles used by its predecessor the L3, the L3-16 offers a wide variety of sonic flavors
known as Release Characters, ranging from analog warm to digital cool. Release Characters affect the
behavior of the L3-16’s ARC Automatic Release Control across the split-band spectrum.
Finally, the L3-16 features Waves IDR Increased Digital Resolution double precision bit re-
quantization and 9
th
-order noise shaping system, for enhanced audio resolution at any setting.