On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: [...] >> My idea is _not_ to *add* a three-band parametric, but to *replace* the >> convolution-based eq with one of the very fine ladspa plugins of >> parametric eq. >> This should lower cpu-usage quite a lot. And if your audio signal needs a >> 31- >> band or a free-hand-drawn equalizer, you are better off with fixing the >> mix or >> using freqtweak, I think. >> > > > This would only output a stereo signal and the compressor expects three > stereo signals. So you would have to either seperate the stereo signal > after the eq with a filter or run a copy of the signal to each band of the > compressor which might increase load but will certainly increase the > chance of artifacts on the final post compressor output. > According to the image showing Jamins signal paths http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/routes.html the stereo signal coming from the eq currently *is* seperated by a filter/crossover before feeding the compressor stages. Thus it should be possible to replace the eq without further changes. But - I'm no expert on jamins internals, so this could be inaccurate. best, david _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user