They use the multiband stuff to crank up the bass to give their signal a punchier sound. I'm pretty sure they use limiting too. Do they really preprocess everything? That would kind of put a hole in my theory. I'd love to give implementing some sort of limiter/compressor a try, provided the horsepower is there.

The problem as I see it is how to apply limiting universally, without limiting songs that don't need it and defeating the purpose of limiting in the first place. I was thinking some sort of gate could be used, but not entirely sure how to implement it at this point. I guess the gate could be set up to let the signal into the limiter if the peaks fell within a certain user set range. What do you think?

Stu