Making the LFE Channel Go Boom
Getting extremely loud, low frequencies are the meat and potatoes of movie soundtracks. Movie directors and sound supervisors want to
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Compact Discs
LFE: Putting The Low End To Work
The final section of the ITU specification is an Appendix to Annex 7, which we explored a few posts back.
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Sample Rate Inflation
John Siau, the head designer and principal at Benchmark, writes white papers and posts them to their site. As many
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No Change Equals Better Sound
Gary Leonard Koh is a principal at Genesis Advanced Technologies and a member of the true believers in the analog
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Getting to the Bottom End of the LFE
Getting to the Bottom End of the LFE The ITU specification for using the LFE (Low Frequency Effects or Low
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LFE: From the Horses Mouth
I finally got a response from my friends at Dolby regarding the boosting of the LFE channel during the playback
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Illuminating CDs: A New Thread
I received a copy of an email this morning from Mark of CDIllumination, the company in Australia that is “vivifying”
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Loudness Nirvana?
Thanks to a reader’s recommendation, I found my way to a paper about the concept of loudness normalization written by
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Loudness and Normalization
This whole loudness war issue is still among the biggest issues confronting the music industry today. And it includes to
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Copy Me Stupid!
It’s a special day today…it’s the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685), my favorite composer by far. There’s
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