[LAU] an interesting note for jamin users...

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

hi *!


have you ever wondered about the "width" control that jamin offers in 
each compression band? well, common wisdom has it that for vinyl, it is 
advisable to reduce the width of low frequencies, so that the grooves 
won't break, but that's about all i ever knew about it until today...

here's a very old article by ambisonics pioneer michael gerzon about 
"stereo shuffling", which is basically a guide to frequency-dependent 
width manipulation for fun and profit, with many very inspiring factoids:

http://www.audiosignal.co.uk/Resources/Stereo_shuffling_A4.pdf

for me, that was quite an eye-opener. if you're bored, check out the 
other papers in the gerzon archive - besides being a brilliant 
mathematician, this guy had the gift of explaining really arcane stuff 
to laymen without resorting to dumbed-down analogies...

best,


jörn