Loving Satin!...but

[Pipelineaudio]

I really am enjoying Satin over here, bought it the same day as the demo, but as much as I appreciate the realism, I'd love a way to bypass the hiss completely. I'm not really interested in the hiss all the time

[EvilDragon]

Btw. are there some plans to implement hiss automute?

Not really. I wanted maximum authenticity and real-world behaviour. Wrapping the program's envelope around the hiss is not what a real machine does.With one exception: noise reduction

[johnnypig]

Hi, agreeing with Pipelineaudio here... As much as modelling reality is nice, 32 tracks of constant hiss isn't awesome.

The rest is awesome however and I am glad I bought it.

Perhaps lowering the quiescent hiss level or having an averaged hiss level for a group of instances.

Please

-robo

[maxxxter]

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[Compyfox]

Here we go again:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... &start=315

Start reading from page 22, and then rethink your FR again.


Also... did you measure the noise level with an RMS meter? What does it show?
If you have sevel SATIN instances in parallel, measure the summing bus - what does it show? Is it too much for you?

And you do know that you can pull down the noise floor to a certain level that it's out of the listening range? (read: quiet enough so that it's not nagging anymore)?

And you hopefully also know that a noise gate on the summing bus, setup just above the noise floor, can work as "auto mute on stop"?

[johnnypig]

Sorry I didn't realize there was a thread already.

I don't have a lot of time to read pages of longs posts though so I guess the summary is U-He don't want to remove the noise.

Got it!

[Pipelineaudio]

Across 16 tracks, with 16 compressors adding 6db of makeup gain, with the hiss all the way down on each instance, I'm at the hiss reading -51dBFS

You can like the hiss or not like the hiss, but claiming it is a non issue is just wrong. Its there, and its significant

I don't care how much they used to hiss, its one of the many reasons I love living in the modern world, where I am liberated from the shortcomings of tape.

I also am glad not to be swapping 8" floppies with a whopping 16kb of mix data per disk on my old SSL. I am all for keeping the best of the old, but I am not interested in the worst of it

[Pipelineaudio]

And you do know that you can pull down the noise floor to a certain level that it's out of the listening range? (read: quiet enough so that it's not nagging anymore)?

Ahh! OK, that may do it for me, all I have found so far is the hiss knob. Moving that all the way down is not enough for me, is there another parameter I am not noticing?

[dalor]

People are so hissy these days Sorry *cough* moving on..

[johnnypig]

Nice one

I don't mind the hiss I only want control. Give me and everyone else that wants it an on/off switch.

Thanks -robo

[damoog]

Is everybody taking the hiss!

[musical android]

Hissy fits

[dalor]

Nice one

I don't mind the hiss I only want control. Give me and everyone else that wants it an on/off switch.

Thanks -robo

Yeah have to agree - URS said: It's coming with the next version.

[hibidy]

People are so hissy these days Sorry *cough* moving on..

Was this split off from some other thread?

[hibidy]

Listen, I don't understand this "hiss" thing. When demoing satin I get no noise from the plug other than that crackle thing.

Is there a step by step to produce this "hiss" everyone keeps talking about?