devgcl wrote: > I could understand part of it Marco but thanks for the detailed > explanation (i am not a real audio expert) > Just tried the other suggestion i.e > Manual Gain reduction: 6; Loudness gain: 5; Loudness reference: 65 > Had a subtle change. I will listen for some time to see its effect but > sounds like i dont need fiddly sox entries. > Thanks heaps for your advice. Will follow this thread as i learn more.
5db of correction indeed is quite subtle and 65db curve is almost flat, try 12/60 or even 18/60 (always reducing total gain accordingly) and find the point where correction is too much, then start decreasing dbs, when it will start to sound good, reduce the reference and increase the loudness gain and see what is better. More than 24db of correction will introduce distortion, 18db is already a huge correction. i.e. 1. Manual Gain reduction: 21; Loudness gain: 18; Loudness reference: 60 -> Too loud, then: 2. Manual Gain reduction: 15; Loudness gain: 12; Loudness reference: 60 - seems ok, then: 3. Manual Gain reduction: 21; Loudness gain: 18; Loudness reference: 65 - is better than 2 ? if Yes, try: 4.Manual Gain reduction: 15; Loudness gain: 12; Loudness reference: 65 and repeat. if No, try: 5.Manual Gain reduction: 15; Loudness gain: 12; Loudness reference: 60 - is better than 3 ? if Yes, try: 6. Manual Gain reduction: 9; Loudness gain: 6; Loudness reference: 60 - is better than 5 ? if Yes, try: 7. Manual Gain reduction: 6; Loudness gain: 3; Loudness reference: 60. That way, the perceived volume should be quite stable, to avoid the impression than louder is better. As a note, less than 3db of difference in gain is hardly audible, you maybe want to use 6db steps and only at the end try 3db more or less for a fine tuning. ________________________________________________________________________ Author of C-3PO plugin, Squeezelite-R2, Falcon Web interface - See www.marcoc1712.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105309 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
