KVR Audio

dbmcclain · Post by **dbmcclain** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:06 pm

Hi wm,

Yes it sounds as though your good ear has compensated the way that so often happens when one is deprived of a sense. Blind people gain exceedingly acute hearing, for example.

It is interesting that you show increased sensitivity to the high frequencies. You are lucky to have avoided most of life's hazards when it comes to hearing...

I often ask... "Which is worse for your ears? To be locked in a tile bathroom with a rapper boombox? or with some guy hammering on a steel plate?" Normally I would say the steel plate is worse, because your nerve reaction time for the outer ear AGC is too slow to prevent the impulses from reaching the near end of the cochlea where your high frequency sensors reside... But on the other hand it depends on (A) how big the rapper is, and (B) how diplomatically to ask him to turn it down....

Heh!, No I had a bout of polio as a child, back in the '50's before there were any vaccines available. Then about 6 years ago, I was overworking (as usual) and let my resistance drop, and I had a re-expression of the polio virus. It knocked me out of service for 3 solid months - every single day on narcotics (morphine) - and at the end of it all I noticed that I couldn't even recognize my old compositionis on the recordings...

I tried in desperation to regain my musical hearing but nothing available could do it properly. High end hearing aids are mainly for speech perception - noise cancellation, tuning to syllabic rhythms, and wholly incorrect compression curves. They make piano fundamentals decay more slowly than the upper harmonics. So I had to use my background in SIGINT and Physics to overcome this problem...

dbmcclain · Post by **dbmcclain** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:17 pm

... as for the 4-band EQ... I hear from the grapevine that the EQ Police are on strike at this time... so I can't prevent you doing whatever you like with it...

However, it is by now horriby out of date with respect to capabilities both soundwise and speedwise. So why not use the 3-band?

(Do you really hate my GUI that much!?)

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:23 pm

dbmcclain wrote:Do you really hate my GUI that much!?

personally I love it - it looks decent&modern, doesn't stress the eyes with too bright colours and stuff, and is very functional (i.e. easy to use)

- I fail to see how someone could dislkie it but that's just me...

dbmcclain · Post by **dbmcclain** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:27 pm

Heh!!! Dyslexia is another gem of mine... I see that I stated the piano thingy backwards....

Hearing aids make the piano fundamentals decay more RAPIDLY than the upper harmonics... turns the sounds inside out...

sheesh! Give me a choice of any 2 things and I will always screw it up. But give me 6 or 7 - no problem...

dbmcclain · Post by **dbmcclain** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:33 pm

...btw... I have several CD's from an artist named Sasha in Germany... is this the same Sasha?

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:36 pm

dbmcclain wrote:...btw... I have several CD's from an artist named Sasha in Germany... is this the same Sasha?

no, not at all...

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:40 pm

dbmcclain wrote:...btw... I have several CD's from an artist named Sasha in Germany... is this the same Sasha?

No, the "c" in my name is no accident.
I wish I was though... no, hold on, I don't.

dbmcclain · Post by **dbmcclain** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:45 pm

Oh, sorry about that Sascha!

RapRogue · Post by **RapRogue** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:11 pm

Good EQ, I won't be turnin' down my bombox tho'!

fritzman · Post by **fritzman** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:29 pm

RapRogue wrote:Good EQ, I won't be turnin' down my bombox tho'!

Could be the opposite, PLParEQ can make some very good bass boost ...

Best wishes, FRitz

fritzman · Post by **fritzman** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:06 pm

jens wrote:
dbmcclain wrote:Do you really hate my GUI that much!?
personally I love it - it looks decent&modern, doesn't stress the eyes with too bright colours and stuff, and is very functional (i.e. easy to use) - I fail to see how someone could dislkie it but that's just me...

Yes, I like it, too. While it's no beauty it's very functional and easy to the eye.

Best wishes, FRitz

tech44 · Post by **tech44** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:23 pm

dbmcclain wrote:... as for the 4-band EQ... I hear from the grapevine that the EQ Police are on strike at this time... so I can't prevent you doing whatever you like with it...

However, it is by now horriby out of date with respect to capabilities both soundwise and speedwise. So why not use the 3-band?

(Do you really hate my GUI that much!?)

where is it?

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:58 pm

tech44 wrote:
dbmcclain wrote:... as for the 4-band EQ... I hear from the grapevine that the EQ Police are on strike at this time... so I can't prevent you doing whatever you like with it...

However, it is by now horriby out of date with respect to capabilities both soundwise and speedwise. So why not use the 3-band?

(Do you really hate my GUI that much!?)
where is it?

translation:

'it's not officially available anymore though I don't really care if you share it amongst each other - but on the other hand: why would you want such a terribly outdated plugin?'

naturestoned · Post by **naturestoned** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:01 pm

Frippertronix wrote:Why didn't it help to render offline? Delay compensation shouldn't matter with offline rendering. Can't you mix at quality 1 and render at quality 5?

hi,

performance improved a lot with 1.80, now I can hear the full arrangement again witout rendering

Again great job with code optimizing.

Problem with the plugin PLParEQ3 reporting the wrong vst-delay for plugin-compensation remains. (Host Tracktion 2). It is also NOT possible to render multiple tracks offline in sync without a little workaround that maybe also helps others.

In your PDF (download with PLParEQ10) you say that 256 Samples delay are reported to the host by default. Is this still true while now starting with Quality 5?

The different real delays caused by quality changes to qualities are still ignored by my host.

Already mentioned in my last post, I now tried the free helper plugin "Latency Delay" from Voxengo before the PLParEQ. It reports a larger default delay to the host (10000) but generates user definable smaller one. This way you have to enter PLParEQs real delay minus the already reported 256 samples in the "LatencyDelay" Plug that is subtracted again from 10000.

so at the moment i use quality 5 = 4096 samples as 44,1 khz - 256 samples = 3840 samples to enter in the voxengo plug. This works now!!! Is there a chance for bugfixing this or is it maybe a host problem?

Idea: You could implement a "save quality" button where everyone can enter his prefered default quality. now when you enter PLParEQ into the track always the user preferred sample delays are reported to the host at load time and no helper plug is needed.

Greetings and thanks again for that great sounding thing.[/img]

tech44 · Post by **tech44** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:06 pm

jens wrote:
tech44 wrote:
dbmcclain wrote:... as for the 4-band EQ... I hear from the grapevine that the EQ Police are on strike at this time... so I can't prevent you doing whatever you like with it...

However, it is by now horriby out of date with respect to capabilities both soundwise and speedwise. So why not use the 3-band?

(Do you really hate my GUI that much!?)
where is it?
translation:

'it's not officially available anymore though I don't really care if you share it amongst each other - but on the other hand: why would you want such a terribly outdated plugin?'

funny because this:

However, it is by now horriby out of date with respect to capabilities both soundwise and speedwise. So why not use the 3-band?

made it sound like "the 4-band is outdated, but the 3-band isn't why don't you use that instead?"

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