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Support #1051

Loudness regulation bumping in music with high dynamics

Added by Ida F over 4 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Minor
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
January 09, 2021
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Affects version:
4.0.4

Description

Hi. I've been using Audaciuos many years, but recently I started noticing a damping effect on music with high dynamics. This is most obvious after having loud tones in the low-frequency registers, but is overall very difficult to detect. This could potentially affect older versions too, since I got pickier with music and speaker quality only last years.

Testing as reference in Mixxx 2.2.4, there is no damping; the music sounds as it should.

I'm using version 4.0.5 on Manjaro, and it doesn't make any difference if I pull the audio through ALSA or Pulseaudio.

History

#1 Updated by John Lindgren over 4 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Support

Please use the File Writer output to save a .wav file so we can compare against the original and see what you are describing.

Also turn off any effects, Replay Gain, soft clipping, equalizer, etc. And attach your config file.

#2 Updated by John Lindgren about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

Closing due to no response.

#3 Updated by Ida F about 4 years ago

Oh, thank you for the reminder!

The Replay Gain was autoselected from the beginning so that may have been the case. I've tested it out several times with different music and with all effects off, I couldn't detect the bumps then.

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