On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:39:40PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > 100 Hz Fons wrote: > > it makes not sense to have defaults for the frequencies Thanks Fons. BTW, I follow your postings with interest. > I'll repeat this: Defaults for frequencies are useless, there are no > defaults! Not only for the mastering, there are also no special defaults > for instruments. At e.g. SAE they teach idiocy and say, for sax use > "this EQ setting" etc., or at least some students guess that they should > learn this, when watching a VIP engineer. > > It's nonsense. Frequencies are a "room" and you'll place the instruments > inside this "room". As there's no default for the panning, there's no > default for the frequencies. > > An exception: 100 Hz isn't a good value. 80 Hz or lower as > shelving-filter is a good position to start. > > I'm not referring to "plugin 1970", but to the usage of EQs in general. > > For the master sum I would prefer a graphical, instead of a parametric > EQ, while for single instruments a parametric EQ might be more useful. Hi Ralf, Nama currently uses plugin 1970 for EQ to support terminal-only users. Those who want graphic EQ can easily use an insert to send the signal to an external JACK'able EQ program. Perhaps there is some equivalent of a graphic equalizer suitable for terminal users? Regarding the frequencies, I risked a "dumb" question to possibly give naive users reasonable defaults. > The parametric EQ is the "fineliner" you use to draw lines to the > "picture", the graphical EQ for the master sum is to tune > "contrast/brightness" for the complete "picture". That seems like a reasonable characterization. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
