[LAU] Decompressor for linux?

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Mon Aug 12 08:28:44 UTC 2013


Al Thompson wrote:

> On 08/11/2013 08:47 PM, Diego Simak wrote:
> >
> > see this post from Claude Young:
> >
> > https://plus.google.com/u/0/114569084697251798925/posts/czFWAWSvBXY
> >
> > I haven't tried it...
> > no linux version though
> 
> Note that this is essentially just an EQ.  It is not going to have any
> effect at all on compression/limiting.

I agree so far.

>  It is also not going to
> eliminate the phase shifts introduced by the original EQs, but is simply
> going to add more.

Not totally true. A lot of research has been done on correcting for
magnitude and phase response. For example these two papers:

    http://guillaume.perrin74.free.fr/ChalmersMT2012/Papers/JAES_52(10)_2004_IF_SubjectiveInvestigation.pdf
    http://web.uvic.ca/~hgiesbre/499/13763.pdf

I haven't kept up with this are of research, but I would not be
surprised if more progress has been made since 2006.

Erik
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