Have you used the HDEQ yet? I actually use the background spectrum to figure out where to do very small boosts and cuts. Also, by the time you're mastering you shouldn't really be doing anything else that requires a lot of CPU power. I normally run Ardour->JAMin->Ardour when I master and I get about 45% CPU usage on my Athlon 1700+. Jan On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 19:56, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:19, Steve Harris wrote: > > > Its the EQ + xover processing thats taking all the CPU. > > Have you considered the possibility of a more standard EQ, maybe 5 bands > that are highly programmable? A linear phase implementation with freq, > gain, Q, HP/LP/BP/shelf as a starting point. Would that save much in CPU > cycles? > > The 32 band EQ you all have done is very easy to use, and the little bit > I've done with it sounds good, but it's just my feeling that by the time > I get to the mastering steps I'm not going to do so much tweaking that I > need that amount of flexibility. It's more work to use fewer controls, > like on my Waves Masters Bundle, but it helps me not not get tempted to > play around too much. > > Anyway, just my thought, JAMin has really come along and I wouldn't take > this as a negative comment about the program but rather just a comment > on how much of it I'm likely to use. > > Thanks, > Mark >
