13 May
2010
13 May
'10
10:44 a.m.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:44:58PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:30:11AM -0700, Ken Restivo
wrote:
I dunno. What would the artifact sound like or look like? If I had a sample of what this
kind of damage sounds like, or a picture of what it looks like, I'd be able to better
determine if JAMIN was doing it or not.
One of the things I (and others) noticed, is a "nasty harshness" in the hihat. I
don't know if this might have been caused by JAMIN artifacts, but it did go away by
bypassing JAMIN. Being naive, and assuming that JAMIN was actually good mastering
software, I thought the problem was with the hihat itself, and was just being made more
noticeable when mastering. So, I "solved" the problem by hauling quite a few dB
of 12Khz and 6Khz, .5 octave each, out of the overhead mics. I will be really annoyed if I
ended up doing this just because of an artifact caused by JAMIN, or if there is other
sludge in my mixes that was caused by it.
-ken
So, are the artifacts caused by the compressors
or the EQ?
The ones I referred to are caused by the FFT-based EQ.
I didn't use the EQ on JAMIN at all, just the
multiband
compressors and the final limiter.
I don't know if Jamin uses the FFT processing to implement
the bandsplitting for the multiband compressor.
If it does then the artefacts of this type of processing
will show up in the output.
If it doesn't, then Jamin needs some type of bandsplitting
fillters that add up to exactly the input if compressors
are inactive. I doubt very much if these are implemented
in Jamin.