16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
7:18 p.m.
Daniel,
The first time I ran multiple tracks right out of Ardour into JAMIN Ron
P. thought I had lost my mind. Since I'm not a mastering engineer I
thought this might be an interesting thing to do. Once Ron got over
yelling "heretic" and "blasphemer" he kind of liked the idea ;-)
Actually, it's just a nice way to preview the mastering session. That
way if you discover that there is something that you really can't deal
with or don't like you can tweak the mix and the mastering parameters at
the same time. It's really very handy. After I have previewed the
track I'll go back and dump a stereo mix and then master that.
Jan
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 06:57, Daniel James wrote:
JAMin cant
currently run without jack, the i/o + processing code is
very complicated and making it work for i/o systems in addition to
JACK would make it even worse.
Fair enough.
you can link jamin to your ardour (or insert
name
of favourite multitrack editor) session and make individual level
changes to source tracks, rather than messing with EQ in the
mastering stage. Several of us think this is the Right ThingTM and
should be encoruaged.
I understood (eg, from the interview with Chris Gehringer of Sterling
Sound in June 2003 SoS) that mastering engineers didn't actually like
working on projects which aren't mixed down. It seems to me that what
you're describing is remixing rather than mastering.
Surely if you're going to EQ or otherwise filter individual tracks,
this should be well out of the way before mastering commences? LADSPA
already makes this possible, with a fine collection of plugins. But
maybe JAMin is one of those new paradigm things...
jamin may grow the ability to write files out
OTOH, for when you
dont want to suck it back into your multitrack, and I think the
eventual idea is to make loading a simple wav file via a jack file
player pretty transparent.
Presumably if the mastering plugins are all LADSPA based they might be
available to all LADSPA clients eventually? Looking at Glame 1.0,
this could be a particularly suitable platform because it allows you
to build LADSPA filter networks in a drag and drop gui, and also
offers file analysis on import and various options for normalisation.
Cheers
Daniel