Stereo Tool

Hi,

I'm setting up my new studio and off course installing Stereotool again on my stream/FM pc.

There's still one problem though.
With all the new bass enhancers, filters, clippers and so on, i still can not get the nice punchy but soft bass sound out of Stereotool.


I have read it on several places that "there's always something missing in the sound". I have that too. But yesterday i disabled the Advanced bass distortion protection and voila!! There's the bass!! I have the default settings so nothing strange there, and it just takes all the deep bass out leaving a flat knocking bass.

So now i have the "Sloppy" setting at max and all bass clipping strictness at 0 or 1 and it sounds much better.
Even U2's With or without you sounds great, punchy, soft deep bass and very clean but airy highs. I love it!


Anyone having experience with this too or is it just me? which is probably the case...


Regards.

Yes ABDP sucks it kils alote, even whith all the bass Enchancer,and 243535 filters.

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Garbage in is Garbage out !

if you drive the clipper between 0dB & -4dB (clipper meter indication), you dont need to have ABDP turned on as any harmonic distortion is barely present but if you drive the clipper at -6dB or above, then its advised to use ABDP.
in the screen shot link below, i use this setting in ABDP to "preserve" the deep bass, my clipper is driven to -6dB at the peaks.
http://scpdny.com/ABDP.jpg

Thnx, this helps a lot.

I dont know what happend but i've found a preset in this forum and suddenly my cpu load went from 55% to 16%!! And with a couple of minor tweaks i managed to get a real nice sound with almost exactly the kind of bass i wanted.

16% with normal output non asio and fm output on asio for listening in the studio, cause i dont like the lq low latency output, almost every cpu setting on the highest possible.

I searched for cpu/quality settings but they were all as high as in my own preset. So thats kind of weird, but it's good now. I stopped tweaking the sound cause i have what i wanted now.

One question remains though... some tracks, especially U2 - With or without you have that deep heavy bass at the beginning. Stereotool goes crazy for a second or 2 when the bass kicks in resulting in heavy distortion on the bass.
I dont want to change the settings, because i'm afraid of losing this nice sound.

Maybe someone have some tips for that?
Multiband is in the first 3 band on 10 ms attack and around 500 ms release. True bass in on and bass clipper too. Advanced clipper is driven to abour -5 db.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Regards.

Oh, and Blacklight Radio, thanks for sharing your preset!