foobar audio player how-to thread

[loninappleton]

Today I added George Yohng's Limiter which is packaged in with his VST wrapper.

Once I established one and only one vstplugin folder and did the rescan after addition, the limiter showed up in the sub menu for Use VST Plugin.

I have the routine down now but there are many things for Foobar enhancement that have yet to be explored.

For a long time (years) I have sought a software solution for real time normalization (stabilization) of audio-- what is called Midnight Theater in special modes for home theater components such as receivers.

Stabilization means raising the soft parts and limiting the loud parts during real time playback. I have only seen these things offered as hardware by Terk and before them Sima Electronics. Sima called their device a volume stabilizer. I have one but I was not getting a result after years of use which means the unit failed or was not getting the right kind of higher power input to operate.

Who knows of a plugin for Foobar that does volume stabilization during playback?

[SoNic_real_one]

What you want is a dynamic compressor.
foo_dsp_vlevel - Hydrogenaudio Forums

[loninappleton]

SoNic_real_one,

Thanks for answering.

I just realized that Foobar having this is inconsequential. My bad.

The required dynamic compression is needed for files that play video such as saved tv shows and such.

I have made this inquiry at VLC which is the most likely to have open source updates. They do not have such a thing to my knowledge.

Well, on to other issues.

DSP controls a lot of things. My heretical question is: could DSP produce the EnABL effect discussed at length elsewhere. If Scott or Dave are lurking about this question might seem ignorant. I have EnABL'ed a few speakers. I just find this area of inquiry curious.

Plus I still haven't got that "balance" slider.

[brisuspre]

I have two Equalisers that open to reveal the same thing

[human.bin]

under the properties window, there is a total playback score that can be reseted, this can be usefull to break-in drivers... i tought the 30 hours on my alpairs where gone, and it signs just 10... :/

thanks for the guide loninappleton

[qest]

Foobar is my favorite piece of software, and you are doing god's work by spreading the word, my friend. But your second post is misleading...

Originally Posted by loninappleton

Foobar runs on many platforms. I use Windows XP but discussion of foobar can range into MAC and Linux as well.

Foobar runs natively only on Windows.

Originally Posted by loninappleton

It is open source and free.

Free, yes; Open source, no.

Originally Posted by loninappleton

It comes as a zip file in the 7zip format.

It's just a simple executable installer, no need to download 7-Zip.

[loninappleton]

qest,

All these things are good to know. I have been mistaken before and will be again. The how-to thread is just a place I ask questions in the
Audio DIY realm rather than Hydrogen.

I actually did think it was multiple platform from refs to installer files or tar files or something. Thanks for clearing up the error.

[Solve]

This is a very nice Vst Eq.
AiXcoustic Creations: Electri-Q - posihfopit

[loninappleton]

thanks solve,

I hope there will be more discussions about these things.

Specifically I don't know how to use the EQ to match driver output graphs.

Also there is this. I use single driver speakers in an unsymetrical manner
(shudder if you wish) with one BIB that is Fostex 127e with an EnABL job
and one MLTL designed by GM for the FE167e which was discussed some time ago. (I participate on the low end of the hobby and doing single builds keeps me in the game.)

Would it be asking too much to EQ each driver separately and then have output a bit greater on one side for my listening position? Since all these things are separate settings in Classic EQ it should be doable.

My source is the Parts Express DTA-1 t-amp from the AC'3 sound output of
my computer board.

The question for Foobar users with VST is where can the settings for EQ be found? Has anybody posted these things in the manner of:

band setting one at such and such
band setting two at another
and so on for each side separately?

[loninappleton]

Today I used the AiXAcoustics style EQ.

This is like the proverbial cow with a shotgun. But it will provide much fascination for those who want to use the drag- style band manipulator. The manual provides many clues as to how to use this sophisticated EQ.

I mention cows and shotguns because, though I can hear the changes dragging the dots does, I am not very good at detecting what needs to or should be used.