On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 02:58:14PM +0100, Jeremy Jongepier 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. > Nice tune. The bridge with the guitars is especially nice. Heh. Regarding the distortion, I stumbled upon a quote from Bassnectar on his site, something to the effect of, club kids today put music in one of two categories: 1) filthy, and 2) not filthy enough. So I guess distortion is pretty much a requisite. The combination of the choice of bass patch and distorted vocal did give me a very retro-1990s industrial flashback. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
