Re: [Jamin] background colors

[Jan D. <evi...@ca...>]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 16:48, Michiel Broek wrote:
> Op zondag 29 juni 2003 16:47, schreef Jan Depner:
> > All,
> >
> > 	I just made a change to the colors in the HDEQ.  I have changed it to
> > use that sick O-scope green background and foreground so that it looks
> > more like what people looking at a scope would expect.  I haven't
> > committed it because I wasn't sure you guys would like it or not.  I
> 
> Talking about colors, if I install the .jamrc file in my home directory jamin 
> begins to eat a lot of extra CPU cycles. On a PII 400MHz that will cause that 
> machine almost to stop responding while without the .jamrc file it works 
> although the load is high. On a 1,8 GHz machine the load goes sometimes up to 
> 50% and the GUI is responding slow. If I press the tabs for HDEQ, parametric 
> eq etc it takes about a second before something happens.
> 
> I think this is something that needs to be improved in the future, all the 
> processing in jamin that needs a lot of power is more important then a fancy 
> GUI IMHO.

	I think Patrick has seen this same problem and is addressing it.  I
haven't had a problem with this on my 900MHz Crusoe laptop or my 1.47GHz
desktop.

> 
> Another thing, I'm remastering a lot of old tapes, and when I bypass the 
> compressors or use very little compression I get the impression that the 
> limiter sometimes has a little distorsion in the low frequencies. Increasing 
> the release time to about 10 msec solves this. I think the default limiter 
> release time should be set higher than it currently is.
> 

	Don't know about the distortion but I've been setting the release to
about 10msec too.

> But the main thing is that this becomes a great tool.
> 
> Btw Jan, can you update the tarball on your site? SF cvs is still far behind 
> reality.
> 
> 

	Sorry,  I just got back from vacation and completely forgot about it. 
The new one is there now:

http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/jamin.tgz


	BTW, I just got done doing a quick mastering job on one of our old
Biscuit and the Blues Bakers songs and put the unmastered and mastered
ogg files out there temporarily.  It's an interesting comparison:

http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/07_grown_man_cry.ogg
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/gmc2.ogg


Jan