TAIZE CHOIR UPDATE

I have all of the choir tracks loaded, normalized, and roughly mastered.

The final effects chain will be:

DP DC Notch - in normalizing the tracks I noticed that the left side had a DC offset, which means its waveform is actually not centered at 0. This can cause clipping and distortion even though the wave is not at full amplitude. This little Performer plug in takes care of that. The ADAT's A/D convertors are likely to blame.

DP Trim - used mostly for its long throw metering and to make minor adjustments in the left/right balance. Low CPU overhead.

DP Masterworks Equalizer - the new, big gun, with 7 bands of parametric EQ. Used to... EQ, mostly removing background noise.

DP Masterworks Limiter - I said I wouldn't limit but I lied. Very conservatively used; if you hear it that's bad, but it oughta buy us another 3dB of level.

Elemental Audio Systems Inspector - a decent, free spectrum analyzer. No phase metering, though.

That will be it. There will be some automation on the EQ to remove noise in different ways at different times.