Good Stuff Jeremy - thanks for sharing that! I certainly enjoyed it, bit like a FOSS Primal Scream and certainly one of the more pro/ commercial (sorry!?) sounding tracks we've have posted to the list in some time. May I suggest TYOQA as subject matter for your next track? ;) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/21/2011 03:09 PM, linuxdsp wrote: >> The compressor used in the linuxDSP MBC2 does have a kind of gentle tape >> saturation style soft clipping in the final stage, so (only) if you push >> the levels high there will be a gradual overload - the idea is that if >> you have your gain structure correct you will run into this gentle kind >> of overdrive without / just before hitting the kind of fierce hard >> cipping which can happen at the output of the DAC / soundcard (and which >> tends to happen suddenly and without any warning). The softer clipping >> is intended to be a gradual indication that you are approaching the >> limit and might need to back off a little if you want to keep the signal >> clean, but it can of course be used as an effect in its own right too. >> It's probably best thought of as part of the 'character' of the >> compressor, in the same way that analogue equivalents (and other >> plugins) have their own 'sound'. For the most part it should have no >> effect - its just designed to give the compressor a more analogue >> character when pushed. > > I used the MBC2 to finalize the track, for the vocals in the verse I > used the Calf compressor from git. The Calf one is way more 'digital' > and thus colder sounding which I preferred in this case. I really like > the sound of the MBC2, big bonus is the GUI, it loads superfast and no > xruns. If I start up the GUI of any Calf DSSI or LV2 plug-in I get an > xrun and it doesn't open as swiftly as the LinuxDSP ones. This is only a > minor drawback, other than that the Calf plug-ins are great too. > > Best, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
