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That would have been a "Gate" ("Noise Gate") not a "Limiter". The 'Hard Limiter' plugin I used before was a LADSPA plugin (hard_limiter_1413.dll) Using a Wet level of 0.0 and a Residue level of 1.0 I could achieve the desired effect. But this Noise Gate you suggested makes a lot more sense to me, a...

This seems to be the thread for questions about the new Limiter effect, so here goes... In the past I used the Hard Limiter effect to remove everything BELOW a certain threshold, say -50 dB. My goal with this is to make silences in a recording completely silent and leave the rest of the audio unaffe...