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by Death
Sat Dec 24, 2022 12:12 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Mastering the loudness of a track
Replies: 38
Views: 14972

Re: Mastering the loudness of a track

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range On a decently maintained Tascam 24 Track on 2" you reached -90dB (unweighted) to noise floor, adding some headroom (~ 10dB) you ended at ~-100dB. A fostex R8 on 1/4" tape reached -50dB unweighted, so with headroom you ended at -60 dB. That's int...
by Death
Sat Dec 24, 2022 2:28 am
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Mastering the loudness of a track
Replies: 38
Views: 14972

Re: Mastering the loudness of a track

awareness seems to be the key here... first when playing with a compressor you can feel and hear that it has grip. Sound gets better at a sweet spot and then gets quite "narrow" and loses somehow soundquality in the high freqs. using compressor means for me losing soundquality, because as...
by Death
Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:42 am
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Mastering the loudness of a track
Replies: 38
Views: 14972

Re: Mastering the loudness of a track

If you use compressor for mastering the loudness of a track... you want to make it less loud - compressors are normally not used for making things louder but for making them less loud. I don't really agree with this. You would normally make things have less dynamic range but not less loud. Of cours...
by Death
Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:17 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Mastering the loudness of a track
Replies: 38
Views: 14972

Re: Mastering the loudness of a track

not neccessarily - one golden rule is that you normally apply compressor in a way that it is not audible. Then, you probably do not have to pull the make up gain up again. I am thinking of a situation where you have several tracks in one project and on the master section, the signals are too loud -...
by Death
Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:58 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

I uninstalled that package in the end and reverted the changes.

I did make new notes based on the advice here so I'll have to find a day to play around with that some time.

Thanks again. I really appreciate the help!

by Death
Thu Dec 01, 2022 1:34 am
Forum: Backstage
Topic: Recently switched away from the *buntus
Replies: 30
Views: 7223

Re: Recently switched away from the *buntus

Cant you install KDE ? Yes I can :) There's instructions on how to do it on the Nobara website and it looks dead easy. They also do a KDE version so you don't have to. I'm just trying out GNOME for a while because I haven't used it since my Ubuntu days and had been using KDE ever since.. 37 is just...
by Death
Thu Dec 01, 2022 1:17 am
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

GuntherT Thankyou for that detailed and easy to follow description :) I've noted that down and will likely end up running through all of those steps one day this week. However, I became curious about what that 'realtime-setup' package would do and so I gave it a go because if that's all I have to d...
by Death
Wed Nov 30, 2022 12:36 am
Forum: Backstage
Topic: Recently switched away from the *buntus
Replies: 30
Views: 7223

Re: Recently switched away from the *buntus

I used to use Ubuntu and derivatives but I switched to Arch based stuff a few years or so back and much preferred it. Then recently, I switched to 'Nobara' which is a modified Fedora. I've never used Fedora or anything based on it before this. I found that in the first couple of days I had a couple ...
by Death
Wed Nov 30, 2022 12:22 am
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

first, there is no realtime - we have something called as good as realtime which, as the name suggests is as good as realtime. Secondly, when you can't get realtime but you still want it, you surely don't want to involve further latencies. I really hope that you can understand what I tried to expla...
by Death
Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:35 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux#cite_ref-27 Security Fedora Linux uses Security-Enhanced Linux by default, which implements a variety of security policies, including mandatory access controls, which Fedora adopted early on.[27] Fedora provides a hardening wrapper, I guess this means, the...
by Death
Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:25 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

Just add @audio - rtprio 95 @audio - memlock unlimited into /etc/security/limits.conf as stated here: https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html Edit: Correction about the filename Thankyou for the info :wink: I read the Jack article you linked and it says: " 1. Editing the configuration f...
by Death
Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:07 pm
Forum: New? We're glad you're here!
Topic: Will Linux surprise me for sound and music?
Replies: 13
Views: 3308

Re: Will Linux surprise me for sound and music?

To be honest I have to agree that it's not as convenient to make music on Linux. The majority of the good software is only supported on Windows/Mac and you'll likely end up wanting to use some of that stuff instead of only Linux native software. Setting up audio is more confusing and complicated, al...
by Death
Tue Nov 15, 2022 12:51 am
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

The only things I think is missing is, as a root user: $ usermod -a -G audio <username> Logout and login to apply group change. I have already added myself to the audio group! The thing I need help with is the realtime audio privileges which I detailed a couple of posts back in this thread. Cheers.
by Death
Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:49 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?
Replies: 26
Views: 7485

Re: Fedora - Anyone use it for music?

...anyone know?

I still haven't sorted out the stuff mentioned in my above post. That's all I really need help with now!

by Death
Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:06 pm
Forum: The Producer's Area
Topic: Mastering the loudness of a track
Replies: 38
Views: 14972

Re: Mastering the loudness of a track

I guess he's using the compressed track parallel to source track and hasn't compensated the latency which then might play some flam or slap et al :wink: That's a good point actually! There might be some latency delay issues happening here.. I think it (kind of) makes sense that a not-too-short atta...