On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:33 -0500, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: The TC Mastering 6000 has five bands of dynamics, L3 multimaximizer has five, Waves C4 has four, Izotope Ozone has four. Having four can be kinda handy when you want to carve out some space to bring things like vocals forward a little. Especially when mastering in sections, when differently treated masters of the same song will be edited together afterwards. (Yes it's turd polishing, but you don't always get to choose what you work with, do you?) Three bands of dynamics does fine though, and I'd rather have someone with a good set of ears using Jamin than some idiot squarewaving the lot with a tc M6000. Quality of the software is not a problem here. As far as more bands of parametric eq goes, if you need more, most plugins will do, I'd just chain them in Linux like anywhere else. If I'm using loads of bands of parametric when mastering, it's so I can turn different ones on and off to see what works. The scene thing in Jamin does the same thing. If there is anything really nasty, the graphic eq is perhaps a better place to notch it out. Anyway, is a 'dork port' on the Jamin roadmap? :)