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

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:12:41 -0700, R Parker wrote:
> 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.

I did a bit of reasearch at the time and it looked like all the
respectable mastering packages use lookahead. Wether the implementation is
the best for the job is another question.

I suspect it should have a peak allowance mode, which ignores very short
peaks at over 0dB and clips them.

- Steve