limiter
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Types
- Usage
- In aerospace and military
- In audio production
- FM radio
- In utilities
- See also
- References
thumb|alt=Comparison of soft and hard clipping.|Comparison of soft and hard clipping.
In electronics, a limiter is a circuit that allows signals below a specified input power or level to pass unaffected while attenuating (lowering) the peaks of stronger signals that exceed this threshold. Limiting is a type of dynamic range compression. Clipping is an extreme version of limiting.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “limiter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.