If anyone cares to comment about this I would appreciate it and it could be useful for other DAW novices. First, the bass boost for 2 seconds here just rocks my socks... for my tastes it is perfect. Could anyone literally describe the technical details of what it would take to get the kind of bottom end specifically from 32 to 34 seconds, the first brief sound part ? http://homepage.mac.com/hschot/PodCasts/HijackEffectsTest-050203.mp3 (the last 1/3 is over the top rubbish) Secondly (shudder), the reverb applied from 40 seconds to 1:10 is also excellent. I don't care if it's real or the sound of a forest, it just sounds commercially 'ken excellent to my ears. Could anyone advise me how to get pretty well exactly that kind of reverb on our favourite tux powered OS with that same clarity and transparency ? All the reverbs I've heard so far (but with minimal exposure to all LADSPA plugins) sound unnatural and somewhat like "down a drainpipe". --markc