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Plugin Alliance HUM Audio Devices LAAL v1.0-BUBBiX screenshot
BUBBiX | 30 April 2025 | 52 MB
When HUM Audio Devices placed a fully analog look ahead delay line into a discrete circuit of the highest quality modern analog components, they created something truly special: a limiter that delivers loudness without brickwall deadness. The LAAL is a limiter with life: no other hardware can preserve and enhance your micro dynamics like it can. Thanks to Brainworx’s expertise, you can finally get this extraordinary sonic signature in the box.



Intelligent look-ahead limiting
LAAL stands for Look Ahead Analog Limiter. This is the detection circuit that makes its special sonic characteristics possible – a fully analog delay line (0.2 ms) ‘looks ahead’ with the dynamic transient function to respond intelligently to signal peaks before they occur. This results in responsive peak limiting without harshness or distortion. Achieve your RMS levels and loudness targets while preserving detail, air, and low-end punch. And use its smoother limiting curves and acres of headroom, to bring life to your mix.

The fall of the lifeless brick wall
Hum Audio Devices designed the LAAL to remain in the analog domain throughout the mastering process. All the magic happens in its unique and sophisticated detection and gain stage circuits. The limiter does not use any soft clipping or similar processes to artificially increase RMS levels. Whether you're mastering subtle acoustic music or slamming brick-wall levels in electronic or pop, it provides surgical precision, harmonic integrity, and stability.

A plugin only Brainworx could create
Brainworx has captured every aspect of this analog chain in the plugin. From the discreet signal pathway to its studio-grade transformers and ultra-precise detection circuitry. You can’t just hear the difference LAAL makes, you can see it too. The peaks of the waveforms from audio passed through the LAAL limiter are notably smoother and more harmonically rich than what can be achieved with other limiter plugins.

Expanded features
As a Brainworx-made plugin, the LAAL Limiter comes with all the expanded digital-exclusive features you’d expect from the makers of the iconic bx_masterdesk series. This includes TX Drive control, M/S processing and so much more. Most interesting of all, the plugin version can compensate for the delay in processing time required for the delay circuit, meaning that Look Ahead processing is more immediate in-plugin than in the original hardware.



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comments

  Member 27.07.2024 84
+26
Whoa!!!
  Member 3.08.2014 1 24
+5
This limiter eats up transients and doesn’t add anything we value in real analog gear.
  Member 25.05.2023 7 155
+200
True! PA - it's a money grab makers & hype train riders.
The whole idea of LAAL - its in the ANALOG (AC Voltage) way to brickwall signal.
It's a ANALOG limiter with ANALOG lookahead delay, so it dosen't have any digital domain problems.
Makin' a plugin that "emulate" it - it's a just a scammy gimmick, for those, who don't know the half about audio.
  Member 19.12.2022 1 233
+119
Seeing "true peak" on an "analog emulation" gave me brain damage
  Member 10.04.2023 1 51
+14
Those who installed and tested this plugin,
Please share your valuable opinions..
  Member 25.05.2023 7 155
+200
*Rubbish.*
  Member 28.07.2020 5 167
+565
Was working on a track using Stealth Limiter (my favourite) just now so swapped that out for this to see what it was like. Right away I could hear some crackling and some flub. Lots of knobs and buttons I don't need. A/B'd it with Stealth and Stealth was still miles ahead in smoothness, transparency and loudness. I'm sure it's not a bad plugin, and others will have different results with different set ups and styles of music, but for me it was not good.
  Member 24.12.2022 56
+339
Installed and tested this and wow, I did not expect to hate it this much.
This thing has nothing on trusted limiters like Invisible Limiter, Limitless or even the newly released Ocelot Limiter.

Really eating up the transients and distorting very quickly.
Tried it on a melodic techno track and the snare's transient just got obliterated by this thing lol.
I used to love everything that Brainworx did, but nowadays they are just not the same...

ANYWAYS - Thanks for the hard work BUBBiX it is much appreciated! <3
  Member 19.12.2022 1 233
+119
Ever since Reimund Dratwa left Brainworx ~2017 every original release Brainworx has made (not iterative on Reimund's code) has been subpar imo. Even if they make something that SOUNDS good their ergonomics are some of the worst out there. There was some saturator they recently released that went from 0 - 100 and the only useful values were like 3 - 15, everything past that was just square distortion.
  Member 25.05.2023 7 155
+200
Beautiful example how plugin makers scammin' people.
  Member 9.01.2025 67
+10
good thing i didnt buy it
  Member 12.06.2018 55
+19
Bubbix is king:)
  Member 27.07.2024 84
+26
working incredible for me and sounds fantastic. watch the tutorial. once you get the hang of it it sounds incredible. This is not a brickwall, if you approach it that way, you have no idea what a LAAL is.
  Member 28.05.2018 32
+13
It IS a brickwall, but it is unable to behave like a transparent one, so you still need a proper digital limiter to achieve loudness transparently. This plugin behaves like a standard lookahead compressor with infinite ratio, with a very aggressive envelope detection. In my opinion, you get better results by using compressors that are designed to add some glue and color. This on the other hand, sounds like a very unmusical, aggressive compressor.
  Member 21.09.2023 2 826
+487
of course this thing isnt analog, its a vst. I wouldnt look at this as a final limiter like stealth, pro-L etc, but rather as an "analog" tone box pre-limiter. Like Acustica's Lace, letting this do 2db of GR or so. Nice flavor, doesnt eat transients when used in moderation, can help achieve loudness before your final push with another limiter
  Member 28.05.2018 32
+13
Release works correctly, thanks ! Unfortunately, the plugin sounds absolute dogshit.
  Member 27.07.2024 84
+26
you don't know how to use it
  Member 28.05.2018 32
+13
It's terrible at being a mastering limiter, and doesn't even sound good enough to be used as a mixing compressor/limiter. Honestly, its best use would be when you want to create an intentionally overcompressed sound with completely squashed transients and unmusical distortion.
  Member 28.07.2020 5 167
+565
Give it a rest. It's a limiter. It's a piece of generic code with a shiny GUI. You turn it on, you turn it up, there's no secrets and there's certainly no learning curve involved in how to operate it. If it sounds like "dogshit", then it isn't working for that person's particular set up. It doesn't work for mine, either.
  Member 12.06.2018 55
+19
It sounds just like most algo plugins, thin and lifeless...I will keep using my Nebula libs until they bridge the sound gap with algos.
  Resident 20.09.2012 5 447
+348
I agree with those that understand the use case of such type of limiter. This is to shave a very few db and give it some roundness. Not to brickwall at all. I like the result. Nothing stunning but its welcome in the arsenal. Place it right before your transparent brackwall limiter and shave a db or so. Listen carefully and you should hear the difference between a squared transient and that one that round it off and give it some polish.
  Member 28.07.2020 5 167
+565
You're the second person to say you need to use a second limiter to appreciate this.. limiter. Cool.
  Member 27.07.2024 84
+26
You are obviously not familiar with the LAAL my friend, this is how it is designed. Audio Animals did a side by side today and it was astonishing. much closer than i even would imagine.
  Member 28.05.2018 32
+13
The problem isn't that plugin doesn't sound close to the limiter. The problem is that it's terrible at limiting. So it's a mastering brickwall compressor that clips off transients and distorts... cool.
  Resident 26.09.2012 3 1850
+867
sounds great thanks !
  Member 28.12.2016 186
+65
if this was really good I would be forced to look at the terrible backwards L logo, so I'm glad most seem disappointed
  Member 21.04.2023 30
+7
Interesting to see the bx menu without TMT, I hope they either abandon the TMT shit or implement it better because it kills the feeling of their plugins more often than feeling useful to me.

And yes, I know you can set it to "digital" mode, but then you need to go through and pick which channel feels the random best to you, I wish at least channel 1 (1-2) would be the default box that they modeled before their randomness TMT algo they tack on
  Member 14.04.2015 193
+45
Take the negative comments here with a pinch of salt. i almost missed this beauty because of some comments here. Watch the video tutorial,Try it out and see for yourself. Like someone said, use it before your final peak limiter.
  Resident 15.01.2014 93
+67
This thing distorts like crazy. Useless on the master bus/in mastering. Or am I missing something?
  Member 27.07.2024 84
+26
The amount of "engineers" in here who don't understand the LAAL is astonishing. It's not a brickwall limiter. Its exactly the way the hardware works. It sounds great. Audio Animals has a comparison video up.

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