Pleased to meet you- I never got around to spending much time in the EQ forums, and when you suggested I call you and chat, I talked myself out of it
Maybe this will be a better way. Power of the internet and all. I'm keeping busy in the same way that attracted your attention, as always- for today, it was rehacking a slew clipping routine so it became a soft clip- if threshold is X and going beyond the threshold is X+Y, it became X + sqrt(Y). Yesterday it was setting that threshold to within X of the previous sample. Formerly (embarrassingly, on CAPE and the last WOMP) it was having the threshold clipped to zero instead of to the previous sample- ouch, crunchy...
Got a hell of an improvement off even the hard clipping version, surprisingly one of the primary things it does is define bass better. The soft clip version REALLY defines bass better. And the effect in the highs is as intended very much like acoustic distance being present. I wish I'd had this debugged even a month ago... wonder if I should be coming up with a test file, seeing as the forum appears to be allowing the uploading of a file?
Anyway, working- and more than happy to belatedly chat, better late than never.