The correct term is "brickwall limiting". Compression and limiting are related, but distinct.
is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl
sam here with another question. is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl ? i realize i'm gonna get ripped a new a-hole however this is not a joke question. honest answers please i can take the heat
as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.
using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88
from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music
starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results
not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should
abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.
audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3
audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA
audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7
audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2
audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK
audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.
using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88
from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music
starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results
not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should
abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.
audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3
audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA
audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7
audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2
audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK
audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
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sam here and i'm not an expert on vinyl however
Regardless of what you may have been told, most vinyl these days is cut directly from a CD production master – and it’s been that way for years.
https://productionadvice.co.uk/vinyl-mastering/ owning that much vinyl mikelavigne i'm sure you must be aware of the difference in sound quality between new vinyl and original pressing of the same album. there is way too much evidence to prove that new vinyl is over compressed with much lower dynamic range than an original pressing? and i believe this is on purpose. |
well, sam.....one guy in the UK does not speak for the world of vinyl mastering. certainly not for where i get my vinyl. but if you just read his summary....here; Summary he states clearly that the most cost effective way to get a great sounding release is to send a......drum roll please.......hi-rez master directly to the cutting engineer. his audience is pop producers and recorders. he did not say ’CD’. and this is just one guy with an opinion. |
thank you headio however i found the solution to my problem i have a 1st press vinyl rip that has the sound i'm looking for and after encoding the frequencies from the vinyl record onto digital audio i now have digital vinyl and the sound is perfect. here is an audio example before/after digital flac 16/44 commercial release http://u.pc.cd/IuOitalK commercial release with vinyl frequencies http://u.pc.cd/ilO7 |
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