[linux-audio-dev] Re: TAP Plugins cause distortion

[Benjamin Racher]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:07 +0200, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:03:16 -0500, Benjamin Racher
> <bracher at iupui.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Have any of you noticed that the TAP EQ plugin can cause distortion
> > during playback? If I eq too low or too high, I get an awful digital
> > distortion that maxes out the whole track in ardour. Am I configuring
> > something wrong, or is this a documented problem?
> 
> There is an issue with some pre-packaged distro builds of TAP-plugins,
> mainly Debian, but a lot of debian-based distros might be using the
> same deb. Try to build the plugins from source (use the latest version
> downloaded from http://tap-plugins.sf.net), and make sure you are indeed
> using that build (uninstall the distro-package first).
> 
> AFAIK the problem occurs with all the TAP plugins, not just the EQ, you
> might want to confirm/deny that.
> 
> "Normal" clipping/distortion when a hot signal is EQ'd all the way up will
> surely occur, but we're talking about a completely different phenomenon.
> Setting the EQ "too low" should not cause any kind of distortion, ever.
> 
> If this doesn't help, I definitely want to hear from you.
> 
> 
> Tom

Ah... its probably the debian packages, since I'm running debian
unstable. Just dropped an email to the maintainer to see if we can get
the deb package updated and fixed.

- Ben