Features
- Retains Dynamics (uses less compressions to retain the quiet portions of music)
- Less high, treble (no listening fatigue)
- Suitable for FM Broadcasts
- High, warm in bass (aims to get the warm orban-like bass like Laser Hot Hits and other major FM broadcast stations)
- lightweight (45% - 56% CPU usage @ 100% quality, tested on Intel Atom X5-Z8300 - 48kHz Integrated "Intel WDM" soundcard Windows 10 Tablet)
Troubleshootings (Each soundcard is different)
- Volume too low
Play around with preamp
- audio overshoots, distorts
Play around with post /pre amp
- Not enough highs
Increase AGC drive
or
Turn on Multiband 2 and increase the drive (where appropriate) [Not recommended, unless the AGC drive has already set to +32dB which is the max].
(I used MB2 with AGC drive set to +24 dB on Intel Atom X5 WDM internal soundcard and +2 dB AGC Drive without MB2 on internal Realtek HD Audio card)
- Not dense enough
set sub bass boost higher than 1db
or
increase multiband 1 drive
- distorted bass (many sounds cards have this problem when increasing the Sub Bass Boost strength)
reduce Sub Bass Boost strength or turn it off
Enable Bass Clipper
Misc. distortions fixes
- Sssss and other overshoot mids / highs
Increase Initial speed of Phase Rotation (from 1600 Hz to higher value) [effective]
Optional (for low-end devices): disable Simple Clipper and Bass Clipper (These options weren't enabled when tested on X5). CPU limit was set to "Pi3". I didn't get overshoots / any distortions on intel sound cards but I have to set pre/post amp to 0 and increase the Multiband1 or AGC drive because output volume too low
sub bass boost makes bass sounds warmer
NOTE:
- This preset was created on an older version of stereotool and tweaked on stereotool 9.70 so you will expect a "deprecated settings" dialog. Please keep the deprecated settings to retain its original sound textures
- Please, ignore the "AGC level too low" warning
- The FM Transmitter and RDS settings are modified but disabled by default. Please load your FM Transmitter and RDS setiings...
I have compared my audio to many local FM stations + Laser Hot Hits. Sounds very similar except more dynamics and less treble
audio samples
Sample 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sI1yEV ... share_link
Sample 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/142ceq7 ... share_link
Sample 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FLtDUI ... share_link
Sample 4
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xfZmRA ... share_link
Sample 5 (Added) Queen - Killer Queen intro
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PQu8HL ... share_link
Sample 6 (Added) EWF - Spend The Night
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B4t24h ... share_link
This was recorded from a mono FM tuner (The carrier is Stereo)
Soundcard used: Internal 192kHz Realtek HD Audio (nothing flashy)
OS Windows 7