Re: Music Made with Linux: The Infinite Repeat - Money or Love (DJ AutoStatic Remix)

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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
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