I just want to start by saying that I really enjoy Perfect Declipper and what it is able to do with the music I listen to. I use it to "declip" nearly every album I have and I try to take great care to select the areas of the music that are dynamically compressed when attempting to declip them. That being said, I have always been frustrated with my inability to understand much of the program, despite me taking great effort in looking high and low to understand it. Yes, I know that you can hover your mouse over sections and it states a little blurb, but that still doesn't help me.
My biggest area of confusion involves the "Detection" section. Pretty much everything on the page I do not get, with exception to the "Sample not clipped if below" section.
First off, what do these percentages entail? For, say, "stop declipping if peaks did not increase above", what does a value of "100%" even refer to? And even for percentages that sort of make sense, such as "maximum deviation from straight line", I do not understand what a value of, say, "50%" would encompass.
Apart from those two points, what do the terms "probably" and "possibly" in the "Sample probably/possibly clipped if above" sections mean? I don't know how to even approach these sections because of that.
Say I want to declip the single "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand, which is highly dynamically compressed.
If you zoom in, you can see a huge portion of the signal makes a pretty flat line as it goes up and down.
How would I make sure to get this portion of the signal? I imagine it would involve using the "maximum deviation from a straight line", as well as the "probably/possibly clipped" sections, but I don't know how any of those work.
On two other points, apparently the "MP3 dirty area" in the "Input" Section is active regardless if the "Input can be compressed" section is off. I've also been really frustrated with the window size of the VST plugin, which has a ridiculous amount of unused space I can't get rid of. Is there any way to fix this?
Well... Hans would probably like to keep his invention secret and not let Orban or another company steal it.