Maximal 3 is a powerful loudness maximiser designed to enhance your audio tracks while preserving their sonic integrity. It combines a true-peak brickwall limiter with a variable shape soft clipper, enabling increased overall loudness without introducing unwanted distortion. The limiter uses true-peak lookahead detection to prevent inter-sample peaks from overshooting and clipping, ensuring clean and reliable limiting.

Offering four limiter modes along with customizable attack and release controls, Maximal 3 adapts to a wide range of audio processing needs. Whether you want transparent limiting that maintains transient clarity, warm bus gluing, or dynamic pumping effects, this plugin delivers precise control over the limiting shape. The adjustable soft clipper adds further flexibility by allowing you to tame spikes or add subtle warmth through a range of clipping curves, making it suitable for individual tracks or full mixes.

Maximal 3 also includes a comprehensive loudness metering section compliant with the ITU-R BS.1770-4 standard, displaying LUFS and true-peak levels. Users can set target loudness levels to meet various broadcast standards such as EBU R128. To maintain audio fidelity, the plugin supports up to 16x oversampling using linear-phase resampling filters, which minimizes aliasing and accurately handles inter-sample peaks during limiting.