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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:39:04PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:

>

> > > Jamin's FFT based filter is not really a filter, it's a vocoder

> > > being used as a filter and it has side effects.

> >

> > Wha??? Um, yuck.

> >

> > I just mastered a CD using Jamin. Was that a mistake?

>

> Depends on if you like the result...

>

> > I mastered a CD through a vocoder?

>

> Yes.

Bleak.
>

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> Early versions had quite severe side effects. Later the

> overlap factor of the block processing was increased, this

> more or less hides the artefacts, but they are still there.

>

> Another thing to take into account that at LF the real

> filter does not correspond at all to the one shown in

> the GUI.

>

So, are the artifacts caused by the compressors or the EQ? I didn't use the EQ on JAMIN at all, just the multiband compressors and the final limiter.
> > Is there a better GPL tool I should have used?

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>

> If you want one that has this type of 'graphical' filter

> I suspect the answer is no. But you don't need graphical

> filters for mastering, a multiband parametric will give

> better results.

> 

But what about the compression and limiting?
-ken

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