One pesky semantic in the ghosts user guide

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If there was ever a reason to stare sleeplessly up at the ceiling it would be the brain playing tricks with its comprehension of a compressor/limiter.
Hi! Hope the following wasn’t covered somewhere already or placed in a User Manual thread:

The manual reads:

Blockquote LIMITER THRESHOLD — TOP CENTER KNOB
A brick wall output limiter to tame the resonators. Turn up this control if you experience unwanted volume spikes. The limiter is always engaged but set to the minimum by default.

Because this is a limiter threshold, my understanding is that it would kick in more aggressively the more you lowered its tolerance for peak signal (not to fret: my tolerance for fuzzy logic is much greater than your average limiter) I understand the syntax of the last sentence: default is minimal limiting. But because it’s labeled a threshold, my intuition is that you would turn this knob counter-clockwise to catch more peaks and to increase limiting.

Could I get a clarification here?

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Yes, that’s a fair point. In hindsight we should have just called it a “limiter” and not a “limiter threshold.” (even though it technically is adjusting the limiter threshold)

Fully down is the minimum amount of limiting, and turning it up increases the effect. This is clarified in the diagram describing the control:

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We set it up that way because, for a single-knob control, it feels more intuitive if turning it up gives you more of what you’re hearing. This matches the way the compressor works in Ribbons.

Maybe in future if we roll out a significant firmware update requiring big changes to our paper manual, then we could remove the word “threshold”, but barring that, they are already printed and we’re not going to change the labeling.

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