-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 02/07/2011 11:03 PM, Hartmut Noack wrote: >> Am 07.02.2011 21:12, schrieb Bearcat M. Sandor: >>> Folks, >>> >>> Thanks for all of the replies. Ardour + plug-ins looks like my best best >>> so far, but i'll check out some of the other options as well. It seems >>> like a good excuse to learn ardour which i've been meaning to do anyhow. >>> >>> When i'm playing with this, are there any guide lines that i can keep in >>> mind to avoid hurting my ears and stereo equipment when i'm playing with >>> stuff? Just adjust all knobs slowly till i know what they do? >> >> I think this will not be available. >> >> Especially modulation-effects like flangers always have the potential to >> produce extreme peaks. If you want to limit the danger to your >> ears/hardware, put a capable limiter like foo lookahead limiter in >> Ardours Master-track. To be even more secure connect Ardours master-outs >> not to your soundcard but to jamin inputs. Then you connect jamin to >> your hardware-ports. Jamin has got a brickwall-limiter that justifies >> its name ;-) > > not strictly necessary - the limiter is also availabe as a ladspa plugin > that can be put into ardour's master bus. > > i find either a foolproof analog volume control or a Big Red Switch(tm) > in the immediate vicinity of the keyboard very reassuring. http://plessas.mur.at/IMG_5297.JPG_small.jpg http://plessas.mur.at/IMG_5363.JPG_small.jpg http://plessas.mur.at/IMG_5492.JPG_small.jpg Sorry, I couldn't resist posting this :-) The famous IEM Big Red Switch(tm) in use at the CUBE and MUMUTH concert venues with their 24+ channel ambisonics PA system. best, P. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1VmU4ACgkQrE8mG1pMpRoougCfVBFLYID/TpM8s/tzq+zED9Ol zT8AniySrfWpF9G1tkhMjcBN6wQrU7fH =EJAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user