Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] jamin: lookahead_limiter_const_1906.so ?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 11:41:05 EEST
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:12:41 -0700, R Parker wrote:
> Do you, or anyone else, have an informed opinion for
> whether lookahead or hard is the most appropriate and
> why? In all honesty, I don't know. JAMin is headed for
> a 1.0 release and I think it would be interesting to
> debate whether we're using the best limiter for the
> job. Steve and I have briefly touched on this topic a
> couple times. It could be that we're using the
> appropriate limiter.
I did a bit of reasearch at the time and it looked like all the
respectable mastering packages use lookahead. Wether the implementation is
the best for the job is another question.
I suspect it should have a peak allowance mode, which ignores very short
peaks at over 0dB and clips them.
- Steve
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