#Recording on #Linux, or hearing the flies fart on the wall.
I'm a bit shocked. I had been using #Harrison #MultibandCompressor #XTMC for years. Only to find a few moments ago that in certain cases, it can introduce undesired distortion.
I recorded some more piano and there it was, with the second band going into compression, very slightly, but just a little too much for my ears for this project.
For the Mandala Movie Album recently released, which is more or less Rock Music in terms of sound, this doesn't matter at all. But for this very piano solo recording… and I am afraid, for another one my wife played live on a grand piano, too.
So I tried to replicate the compression with #LinuxStudioPlugins' Stereo #Multiband #Compressor… and there's no distortion whatsoever. Yet, multiband compression is really hard to tune in / to analyse by ear… and the Harrison model just was very easy to use, while the #LSP one has too many knobs for my taste.
Of course, sc normal people won't hear anything of this at all.