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NEW: Loudness
sKiZo:
Been hoping this would come along. Rather than white or pink noise, how about a sweep? Much more accurate for RTA, but I guess it would be a bit hard to spot on an SPL meter - unless it has peak hold available, like my trusty old BSR.
A bit off topic, but arguably related. Now that we've got all these options for HTPC digital, what are the chances of making it available for our analog sources? Not sure if MC can process a line in signal as is. Maybe I'm just missing something here. I've got an ADC that I already use for vinyl ripping, so routing the analog signal to the computer itself is already done. All I'd have to do is figure out a way to run it thru MC and out to the DAC, and I'd be in 6½th heaven.
Hey, gotta leave some room for improvement. <G>
Also ... a nice feature on some receivers is variable loudness. I expect that could be achieved by simply adjusting the reference level for different selections. Would be real nice to be able to save specific profiles for quick retrieval.
And ... still waiting hopefully for the ability to edit replay gain settings. If those are wrong, loudness would be based on an inaccurate baseline. As is, some tracks don't process correctly in RP, and it'd be nice to be able to tweak the data as needed. Right now, I end up manually editing the music file itself to compensate for whatever horrible things some engineer on crack did to the original recording. Good example is Cowboy Junkies - Sing In My Meadow. Great stuff, but still screams and thuds after RG is done. Soundforge shows the raw track in excess of +/- 12db - I normalize and adjust the volume to the usual +/- 6db, redo the replay gain, and all is good.
)p(:
--- Quote from: sKiZo on January 26, 2013, 04:25:57 pm ---
A bit off topic, but arguably related. Now that we've got all these options for HTPC digital, what are the chances of making it available for our analog sources? Not sure if MC can process a line in signal as is. Maybe I'm just missing something here. I've got an ADC that I already use for vinyl ripping, so routing the analog signal to the computer itself is already done. All I'd have to do is figure out a way to run it thru MC and out to the DAC, and I'd be in 6½th heaven.
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Use the loopback feature for your inputs: file > open live.
sKiZo:
AHA!
Yet another reason to upgrade from MC17! I just got MC18 the other day (for the loudness feature) and haven't gotten around to updating the audio server yet. Just checked, and the "file > open live" feature isn't available there.
Have to do me some digging and see what other goodness I'm missing here.
ilias81:
Hi everyone, I have one question: If I use volume levelling does loudness have any effect or I should disable one of them? Thanks!
JustinM:
They will both perform as intended when both enabled.
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