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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: Eccles on November 07, 2005, 12:29:30 pm
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I've just started using MC at work, pulling content from my MC Server at home. However, I need to keep the volulme down in the office, and I'm finding that the dynamic range of the streamed audio is too wide for such an environment - when I turn down the volume so the loud segments are where I want them, the quiet segments are inaudible.
What I'd like is a way to compress the dynamic range, to produce something more "muzak-like". Is there a plug-in that will do that, or can I approximate something similar by playing with replay gain and overflow handling?
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Low-Tech: WireLess Headphones
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Even lower tech: use a light bulb as a power dependant resistors in series with the speaker. Lightbulb resistance changes over a ratio of about 8:1
Suspect its not what you wanted to hear, but sure would compress your DR without any other distortion, and is a simple plug-in, in the physical sense.
Tab
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Umm, thanks guys, I think. ::)
Reminds me of the balloon joke - technically correct but practically useless. :P
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Enable the DirectX host in MC.
Find a plugin that has a limiter.
Here are a few sites:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/PLUGINS_DX/
http://www.zicweb.com/scripts/get.php?i=11&lg=us
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php
http://www.users.bigpond.com/prodigalson/plugins.htm
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That sounds promising, but I can't seem to find the "DirectX host" in MC. I'm running MC11.0.316 - what am I missing here?
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Never mind - I found it. Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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Enable the DirectX host in MC.
Find a plugin that has a limiter.
Works like a charm - thanks! I didn't even have to go looking for a compressor plugin - the DX Host found one already present on my system - I'm guessing it came with WMP.
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Glad its working for you.