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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:24 am
by medway
On 2004-09-15 23:38, interloper wrote:
Seems like tape is one of the few mediums that softly reduces the transient peaks without reducing the level of everything else in the track like a compressor and even some limiters.
Comps and limiters can be set not to work on anything other than peaks. But they might not always be as soft in doing so.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:44 am
by blazesboylan
You all have forgotten soooooooooooooo many areas of compression / limiting / saturation, I'm disappointed.
- soft-knee vs. hard-knee compression
- brick wall vs. non-brick-wall limiting
- negative feedback / variable mu compression
- speaker compression
- record player arm compression
- MP3 compression
- lossless ZIP file compression
- SCUBA decompression
- the trash compacter in Star Wars
- tinnitus compression
Discuss!
(seriously though, this is a great thread. don't mind the heckler in the cheap seats, keep going please.)
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:19 am
by bbrian
Jesse, thanks for that link, a lot of great information at that site!
Some further experimentation reveals that you can get an extremely loud signal by placing a cranked BigMuff Pi after your Optimaster. Then you can open this file in Wavelab,etc and use the pen tool to make sure the waveform looks like a giant rectangle, and export to cd.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:31 am
by medway
Hey don't tempt me, I happen to have a Big Muff right next to me )
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:40 am
by wayne
Softclip, anyone?
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:44 am
by garyb
On 2004-09-16 08:31, medway wrote:
Hey don't tempt me, I happen to have a Big Muff right next to me )
tell her to say hi!
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:00 pm
by interloper
Lol.
