[linux-audio-user] jamin: lookahead_limiter_const_1906.so ?

Jan Depner eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Fri Apr 30 16:28:08 EDT 2004


It's a brick-wall, lookahead limiter.  Crank the input volume and watch
the output meter.  The farther you look ahead the gentler the slope to
the absolute limit but it's still a brick wall.

Jan

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:12, R Parker wrote:
> 
> --- derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote:
> > Ron,
> > 
> > R Parker wrote:
> > > Derek, I think you can ignore that error. Does
> > JAMin
> > > start and do you have a working limiter?
> > 
> > Of course, yes it starts, but I wondered what
> > limiter it chooses then? A 
> > hard limiter, or the other lookahead limiter?
> 
> I can't swear by this but I think it's a lookahead.
> Steve or one of the other guys will need to tell us.
> 
> Do you, or anyone else, have an informed opinion for
> whether lookahead or hard is the most appropriate and
> why? In all honesty, I don't know. JAMin is headed for
> a 1.0 release and I think it would be interesting to
> debate whether we're using the best limiter for the
> job. Steve and I have briefly touched on this topic a
> couple times. It could be that we're using the
> appropriate limiter.
> 
> ron
> 
> > Checking the flattened 
> > peaks of some of my Jamin-processed files, I might
> > almost think it is a 
> > hard, brickwall limiter.
> > 
> > d.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> > ---Oblique Strategy # 115:
> > "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action;
> incorporate"
> 
> 
> 
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