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Originally Posted by
Trakworx
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That's funny - I almost exclusively use Pro-L2 in Modern mode

Funny indeed. I did use modern for the first year it came out because it is very shiny and wide, but then I realized it was softening the power of the lower mids and also introducing some slight phasing (probably from all its bands vs the single band of the others).
I now cycle thru punchy, transparent, dynamic and all around until I get the release shape right for the tune. And after a few years of not using modern, when I flip back into modern Im taken aback by how much it changes things compared to the others. This is obviously just a preference of what our ears like / don't like.
btw I usually only hit a single limiter 0.5 to 1.5dB max so perhaps that is why our results vary so much? I know that if I were to go beyond 2dB that modern seems to hold together best.
But for the tone preservation alone, I would rather use 2 ProL2s not in modern VS one in modern.