On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:39:04PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > > > > Jamin's FFT based filter is not really a filter, it's a vocoder > > > being used as a filter and it has side effects. > > > > Wha??? Um, yuck. > > > > I just mastered a CD using Jamin. Was that a mistake? > > Depends on if you like the result... > > > I mastered a CD through a vocoder? > > Yes. Bleak. > > Early versions had quite severe side effects. Later the > overlap factor of the block processing was increased, this > more or less hides the artefacts, but they are still there. > > Another thing to take into account that at LF the real > filter does not correspond at all to the one shown in > the GUI. > So, are the artifacts caused by the compressors or the EQ? I didn't use the EQ on JAMIN at all, just the multiband compressors and the final limiter. > > Is there a better GPL tool I should have used? > > If you want one that has this type of 'graphical' filter > I suspect the answer is no. But you don't need graphical > filters for mastering, a multiband parametric will give > better results. > But what about the compression and limiting? -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
