1.2.0 Release - New Engine, Tahoe Ready And Improved Crossfeed
The audio pipeline has been redesigned from the ground up. The Crossfeed filter has been updated with a low-frequency shelf compensation and a new Settings window!
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Jan Meier's Crossfeed, Explained
If you have ever listened to a record mixed for speakers through headphones, you have noticed something subtle but unsettling. The stereo image feels too wide, too hard. Instruments that
Crossfeed - Headphones With A Sense Of Space
I've been wanting a proper crossfeed stage in Zenteek since the first day I started the project. Tonight it finally landed. There are four presets in Output Tools covering different
Winamp Flashbacks, In A Window
A weekend detour: Zenteek now has a full-screen Milkdrop visualizer. ProjectM-4 under the hood, classic Winamp-era presets reacting to whatever is playing.
Smoother Saturation And A New Bass Stage
Three things tonight, all of which have been on my list for weeks. First, the preamp simulator got a proportional waveshaper blend. In practical terms, this smooths out the loudness
FLAC, ALAC, WAV - Does The Container Actually Matter?
Every few months someone asks me which lossless format they should rip their CDs into. FLAC, ALAC, or WAV. For the audio, it does not matter. All three decode to
A Crash, A Toggle, And Some Tahoe Cleanup
The Stereoize DSP I was so happy about yesterday turned out to have a nasty bug - it crashed on hi-res material. Which is, you know ... bad.
Waking Up Old Mono Recordings
I have a lot of mono recordings. Early jazz, a handful of fifties blues sides, some classical records from before stereo was a thing. They sound wonderful on a single
Oversampling And Better Drive Knobs
I couldn't leave the preamp alone. Yesterday's release went out and I immediately started hearing the places where the saturation was being a little too aggressive on high transients -
Four Preamps And A Proper Output Stage
Today I jumped a minor version because this one actually earns it. The signal chain got two significant additions, both things I'd been sketching out in a notebook for weeks.
Fine-Tuning The Little Things
This one was all about the corners. The artwork-based color detection I put in yesterday worked, but there were edge cases.
The Loudness War And Your Music Library
If you compare a well-mastered jazz record from 1962 to a pop album from 2010, the newer record will probably sound louder through the same speakers at the same volume