Re: [Jamin] Re: [linux-audio-user] good spectrum analyser

From: Mark Knecht ^lt;markknecht_at_comcast.net>
Date: 02/21/04 23:03 EST
Message-Id: <1077422581.6293.15.camel@marksmusic.myvnc.com>
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 19:37, Jack O'Quin wrote:

> I think Mark is coming from a traditional audio engineer perspective.
> He's comfortable with the controls of a parametric EQ.  Many other
> potential JAMin users are likely to share this view.

This is basically the case and pretty true for me. I use all of the
Waves Masters Bundle for this sort of job, and I'm just speaking from my
personal experience when I say that the times I've done *more* in what I
call 'my' mastering step in the end I've been less satisfied with the
results long term. 

I meant what I said earlier. I think there's a very tempting aspect
about all the control JAMin gives you that may actually work against you
in the end. Get it right in the mix and there's less to do in mastering.
It becomes more of a job of putting 12 songs in a row in a way that all
hangs together. 

I do think that the scenes feature in JAMin is quite intriguing in a
mastering tool though, but I admit I've been scared to try it for fear
that when transitioning from scene to scene the tool would leave
artifacts if scenes were verse and chorus as the web site sort of
advertises. I want to try that one day soon.

> 
> Is it possible to provide parametric user interface controls for our
> underlying 1000-band FFT-based equalizer?  This could be an
> alternative to the HDEQ for those who want it.

Or to those who might need it for CPU usage reasons...

> 
> I'm imagining doing more or less what the parametric sliders do, only
> based on user settings for frequency, Q, and boost/cut dB.  I realize
> this would take quite a bit of programming, though not as much as the
> HDEQ, I suspect.

Anything happening in terms of someone developing the Linux equivalent
of a program like CD Architect? One of these days someone's going to
want to build overlapped songs with separate track points for each song.
I don't think we have a tool to do that yet, and to really do mastering
we need to be able to do the whole job.



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