[linux-audio-user] LADSPA hints

I wonder if anyone could suggest some useful settings for a couple of plugins. I'm working with Ardour right now. I want to use SC4 to essentially 'flatten out' a vocal take. I know such approaches are generally frowned on around here, but the take has a large dynamic range and it simply won't sit right in the mix any other way. I'm really not sure where to put the threshold and compression ration to achieve this kind of effect and I could do with some guidelines on attack, decay and knee settings. It's a pop song, and yes I really do want it to sound like that. any ideas? The other issue is stereo reverb. What I want is a little pre-delay followed by a long _smooth_ tail. Putting freeverb across the master track inputs just sounds like I dropped the band in a bucket. There must be a way of doing this. Would it be the way to make a separate stereo track for the reverb? I notice some plugins don't have any signal mix control. I have also noticed that many of the TAP plugins make bad broken noises in Ardour, should I not be using them in this environment? Any thoughts, experiences, pointers etc. gratefully received. I reckon I'll be posting some oggs up soon at this rate. ;) cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk