On 11/08/10 03:09, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
As of last night, I have begun running Yoshimi through the
calfjackhost compressor, with a preset designed to prevent all overdriving:
I am astonished. The tone quality resultant is improved quite a lot.
Jack load is reduced too. Will's miracle tone "Overdrive" is improved in
interesting ways; it "pulls back" less in its mysterious third-order [?]
effects cycle, yielding a more useful result in the treble.
I tried this first for LinuxSampler; LS was overdriving on me no matter
what I twiddled, so I put this on it, and LS improved very nicely. Then
I wired up my Jack patchbay to run everything through it, and lo and
behold, I have a new standard component.
Overdriving must throw all sorts of odd stresses around inside a Jack
setup. If I were running more than one instrument at a time through this
rig (eventually, I probably will), I may run one Calf compressor per
instrument, instead of running everything through the one.