jamin is used for mastering, which is the "art" of boosting the overall level of your music. The cool thing is that it has a very detailed EQ (1024 bands) that you can edit on the fly with a pencil tool, it has an efficient compressor, divided in three independent compression modules corresponding to three frequency domains (whose boundaries you can adjust on the fly as well), it has a "scene" based work flow, so you can have zillions (well, 20 at most) different settings that you can edit, and call on the fly (activate, deactivate) by a simple mouse click, it has a fast lookahead limiter for eliminating in a very efficient way above level samples, it has a "sound warmer" or booster that simulates the warmth of a tube amp (very cool stuff), it is JACK aware of course, it can be used as an insert in your ardour master bus that you can activate / deactivate easily, it washes the dishes ... ah no, sorry ...
I cannot go on like this, have a look at the jamin website!
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html
the news section is outdated though. But there are some cool piece of info about mastering from the various links.
I personaly use it almost everyday for dfferent reasons. For ex. my turntable is not plugged to a h/w amp, it is directly plugged to my RME Multiface II. SO I use jack-rack with a software amp, directed to jamin for producing a nice level in all frequencies so my ripped LPs can compete with commercial CDs (well, to be frank I did this kind of work for friends who are not very critical when it comes to sound quality but they really enjot the result).
I shall one day write some tutorials (or even film myself) with all the things I learned during these intense months playing in my "cosy" studio
But that's a project on its own which takes a lot of time (like chit-chatting in various forums
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@briwood
I forgot to mention, the art of mastering is not easy, I am still learning about it but if you already have a good and robust mix, mastering becomes much easier. In some of my work, mastering makes a big difference : from a low volume but good enough balanced mix, you can turn your master track into a very large and big sounding piece of music. It makes a big difference, believe me!
