Stereo Tool

Stereo Tool 9.23 is released!

Changes: https://www.stereotool.com/documentatio ... n_history/


Bug report: Console version doesn't accept stdin input anymore.

9.23 is running smoothly. I'm really enjoying the AGC Matrix feature. It does sound better than the ACR Stereo filter which I've now turned off. No longer need it. Overall, excellent job on the new release!

Bug fix: Equalizer "Between multibands" setting was actually still before. -> The drop down menu now shows before multibands twice, doesn't seem to makes a different which one I picked but could be confusing

I know... no easy way around that, I renamed one of the old settings to match the other one (and indeed they are - and were - the same).

in agc matrix, I continue to have a problem, only on news and advertising, after about 20 seconds stereo expansion out of control, you also confirm yourself problem?

No? Is your news already different between left and right? And are you using the 2nd setting to avoid extreme effects?

I did not understand the first question.

of course. if I move l + r to l-r at 20% the problem does not exist

I again will say that Ingnore high frequencies doesn`t work. Work only Auto option(if selected). If not selected, manual slider does not affect the CPU load, nevermind the Ignore high frequencies is enabled or not. It`s same CPU load.

Also Option is affected from Bandpass filter(enabled or not). If bandpass not enabled, Ignore frequencies is not working at all, nevermind Auto or not.

If I turn on the matrix, do I have to turn off all stereo effects? Or just the AGC stereo?

If you enable Matrix mode without any limit it will get out of control as it will try to level your L-R to the same target as the L+R. If there's very little stereo content (what I would expect on news and probably ads) it will boost that little bit by a lot. Use the channel mix or the channel linking settings to prevent it from moving too far away from the L+R. I use L+R to L-R channel mix on 35%, Below-threshold L-R boost at +4dB and channel linking at +6dB.

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