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Old 8th May 2008, 10:42 PM   #2
bob katz
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Dear Ivo:

Good effort, but you've defeated to some extent the very effect you're trying to demonstrate! You started with 16 bit samples and ended with 16 bit samples. Did you dither to get the results? Even with dithering it's going to get a bit smaller. I suggest you take your originals, process them with the processes to a 32 bit float result or a 24 bit result, then zip or rar them to save space on the download. Let's not SHRINK the very things we want to evaluate!

BK


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Originally Posted by ISedlacek View Post
Here are two short tracks (of different musical genres), presented in the original and then after applying four different stereo enhancers/imagers:

1) K-Stereo (Algorithmix plugin) (790 EUR)
2) Samplitude stereo enhancer (included in the programme)
3) BX control (74 EUR)
4) PSP stereo controller (32 EUR)

Now 20 sec samples (blind - in different order, the respective letter always belongs to the same enhancer)

POP:

1orig

1A

1B

1C

1D


ELECTRONICA:

2orig

2A

2B

2C

2D


And I would be very much interested to hear your impressions about how you like A,B,C,D enhancers and what each does to the track. Some preference scale (if any :)) would be interesting too. After some feedbacks, I will tell you which is which

K-Stereo was set to wide/deep + 1dB
the others to 118% stereo width enhancing
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