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| Author: | mikehende [ Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Will Stereo tool work for my application please? |
Hey guys, I am new here, I went to the net searching for a software which will work together with my touchscreen jukebox software, I am trying out 2 of them right now: http://www.albumplayer.com/ http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/ The problem I am facing is that I have some mp3's which come on much louder than others so I have to constantly manually adjust the EQ's frequencies, all of my mp3's have been run through mp3gain so the volume itself is pretty much consistent but some mp3's it is the bass, then for others it's the highs and others the mids. When I play music through any software on my home stereo is is not so much of an issue but when I bang out music on my large rig this is where it becomes important so I don't blow my speakers. I joined a couple of broadcasting forums yesterday asking just what it is FM radio stations use to have all frequencies of all tunes constant and was told this: Quote: It is compression that does that, radio stations typically use a multiband compressor that compresses several frequency ranges indivually. This can be a special hardware box, or it can be done in software with Breakaway being one of the better software multiband compressors. By compressing different ranges of audio individually, it's like custom adjusting the EQ for each song.
So Stereo Tool was recommended and is the reason I am here, I would like to know if I can work this software with my jukebox software and also if you guys experience any latency issues with Stereo tool please?
One catch with this is the newer digital multiband compressors do add a bit of latency or delay to the audio. If you're listening to that in headphones while talking on a mic, it will mess with your brain and you'll find it difficult to speak properly. |
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| Author: | hvz [ Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Will Stereo tool work for my application please? |
First reply: Neither of the programs that you listed seem to have support for plug-ins (I checked by searching for the word 'plug' in the features page, so I might have missed it). That means that you'll have to use a program that sends the audio to Stereo Tool instead of to the sound card. But that will cause latency. Alternatively, if you have enough sounds cards available (or a separate pc), you could use a hardware connection to minimize that latency. I would advise to first try out if Stereo Tool does what you want it to do (using compression also changes the sound! Meaning that a softer spot of a song will be made louder. And I don't know if you want that). You can easily connect it to your software using a program like VB Cable (free/donationware) or Virtual Audio Cable (paid). This will give you a bigger latency as I said, but it will allow you to check if this is what you want. The minimum latency of Stereo Tool, when processing sound card input and sending the result to the sound card output, is 15-16 ms, which is usually (to most people) acceptable even for speech. |
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| Author: | mikehende [ Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Will Stereo tool work for my application please? |
Thanks for the info and for making the effort to look into the softwares mentioned. I will first contact their developers to inquire about the plugins issue as I wouldn't want to have any latency issues, get back to you. |
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| Author: | mikehende [ Tue Jan 20, 2015 1:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Will Stereo tool work for my application please? |
I did some research yesterday, sorry I should have mentioned that I don't use a "mic" so my purpose is only for mp3 playback, if I can route the audio through Stereo Tool then shouldn't be any latency issues, is this right? Also, I am being told that what I will need is a multiband software which will specifically address each frequency [bass, mids and higs], can you tell me if Stereo Tool provides this please? |
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| Author: | hvz [ Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Will Stereo tool work for my application please? |
Yes it does. As I said earlier, please just try it out to make sure that it does what you want. |
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