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February 20, 2025
Question

Dynamics limiter and hard limiter no longer working

  • February 20, 2025
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ive recently noticed when using the dynamics limiter or hard limiter it doesnt do anything anymore. it worked a couple weeks ago but now doesnt. I usually have my voice limited to-9.40, but it still goes way past -3 and peaks. i have made sure the limiter is enabled. Ive released 2 projects with this setting not working before i noticed which is frustrating.

 

i started using the dynamics limiter as the hard limiter option stopped working for me many years ago. 

 

has anyone else had this issue or know how to fix it? 

14 replies

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 21, 2025

Hi @default54w22gptk8xk - Adobe recommends using the studio driver when working with Premiere Pro.  Can you try installing the latest version.  Can you check your audio hardware settings and make sure Default Input is set to "No Input". Can you try backing up your settings and then hold down "shift" while opening premiere and then select the checkbox "Reset App Preferences". I have tested this on a clean 25.1 project and don't see your issue.  Please let us know if these steps help your issue.

Known Participant
February 21, 2025

Yes it is enabled. I understand many may miss that option as its not made clear but, unfortunately i dont think this is that simple of an issue. To clarify, this used to work completely fine until recently, even finished projects that it worked on previously have been affected. ive tried many different methods to no avail. There are no other plugins enabled in the audio track mixer. Applying it directly to the clip in the timeline changes nothing. Both the Dynamics Limiter and Hard Limiter have been affected. 

 

CPU - Ryzen 9 5950x

GPU - EVGA Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB

GPU driver (PC) - Geforce Game Ready Driver Version: 572.47

RAM - 32gb DDR4 3200Mhz (x2 8gb + x1 16gb) 

Operating system - Windows 10 pro 22H2 19045.5487

Program version - Premier pro 25.1

Hard Drive - 2tb Lexar SSD (internal sata) 

Video format - Fragmented MP4 (.mp4) and/or H264 mp4, Proxies are Prores Quicktime Proxy  

Workflow details: Project has 2 audio tracks, one for voice and one for game audio, recorded in OBS. this exact set up used to work and ive been using it for almost a year now. 

Steps to reproduce 1.create project  2.import clip  3.open audio track mixer  4.select dynamics or Hard Limiter 5.set limiter threshold to -9.40db  6.Enable Limiter 

Expected result  - Audio should not go past -9.40db 

Actual result - Audio does not change and will go past 0db if loud enough

 

Thanks for taking the time to read through this, hopefully we will be able to come to a result and figure out whats going on soon with my premier pro, as this has completely halted the ability to finish projects.

Known Participant
February 21, 2025

this is a test to check if my replys are posting, ive posted a reply but it doesnt seem to be showing up

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 20, 2025

Hi @default54w22gptk8xk -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How do I write a bug report?

 

Have you checked the same menu that Limiter Threshold is in and make sure that "Limiter Enabled" is set to on.

 

Let us know if that helps your issue.


Sorry for the frustration.