Stereo Tool

Hi everyone,

I am newbie here and really glad to join this big community of yours.
Please, accept my apology for being very direct but I have a question for you all. And some of you might able to possibly help me.

Would love to get the sound of UK radio station, It has that specific sound that I love. I am not sure what they are doing there but it sounds 'adictive'.
Can someone of you guys help me with preset to sound as this: http://ice-the.musicradio.com:80/CapitalMP3

Their stereo field sounds nice, I am able to hear every little bit of effect. Also, I am not pro but what setting provide sort o nice bass on "P" letter/tone (sounds like bass when you make pfff noice), that harmonic worm bass on I believe some specific places of song. if you know what I mean.

Some of you might not even like this but I absolutely love this sound and trying to discover, how can I make my station to sound like this or close to that??

I am not using FM, just to stream online and currently testing StereoTool. Is actually StereoTool capable of providing such sound?? Tried many presets but can't get that close. Also, music most time has some reverb instead Unsure what is the issue, is it because my volume to low or high or anything else (sound card has no fx).

Please guys, help me if you can. If you can share your experience and knowleage, I will really appreciate it so much, Thank you everyone for your time.

PS By the way, I have recorded 5 songs of the above station for testing. Due to copyright I am unable to publish the record. However, if you need that I am more than happy to send you the link to download it for tests.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Luckily, no.

Hi Bojcha,

Thank you for your replay. Sorry, I hope I didn't offended you or others by asking about this??

I must imagine, possibly the sound I am asking you about isn't your favourite. However, if my I ask you at least to help me with the preset?? You are professional here, maybe you could possibly tell me, how can I get that bass on 'p' letters. What settings should I test this with?

By the way, what is really wrong with this sound?? Does it really really sounds bad? Thank you again

Ofcurse you are not.

What i think is on that stream is Orban probably newer generation, and on top of that badly adjusted - meaning what you hear is limiters are killing itself and HF clipper is burning! I never liked that overburned/overcompressed sound, but that is just how those processors sounds and seems many likes that.
For me sound is very hard to listen for a long period. I also like nice defined bass wich is on that stream very "undetermined". Same thing also makes overall sound - thin.
Also i see too much tilt in signal wich makes, usually lows, to sound even more weirder. But that is caused by other things (not processor)

For general sound it much depend on how it is designed and what are goals. Stereo Tool is designed to have minimal distortions and artifacts in every aspect.

Try and let me know...
Use latest beta! - wich is currently 7.25 beta008.

Edit:
- Set "mix out" for band 5 to +3.5dB.
- You might want to set Advanced clipper to ~ +1 or +2dB

Hi Bojcha,

So sorry for late replay. Very busy week then wanted to test the settings for few days.

Wow... Massive thank you million million times, that's unreal. It sounds more than close to what I was looking for. Bojcha, you have an amazing gift - your superb listening skills. I'm honestly out of words. I am listening to your preset right now and it gives me exact adictive feeling.

Thank you ever so much again, I honestly mean it!! Wow, it feels so good.

By the way, I'd like to also thank you for explaining how to get tha bass by up'ing the tilt. I noticed, since I increased mix out on band 5 the sounds has more bass on "p's". Is that right??

Thank you again, hope that counts.

Capital FM using Omnia 6, also for there webstream I guess because they using the off the air processing. There are lots of emulating presets here you can try it out.