[mattigol]

Check this out, new software add-on for ITunes rolled out at MWSF:

http://www.subband.com/

and read for yourselves. Apparently a brand new startup by the one of the WinAmp creators. Just a gimmick for true hifidels or worth buying?

Cheers M.

 

[blessingx]

Thanks. Will give it a try in the next couple of days.

 

[Jahn]

as long as it wont gunk up the signal chain with it off, i dont mind loading it up and turning it on to see if it does anything funky. but if it degrades the quality too much, it might not be worth it. to give you an idea, i think even the Bass Tightener on Patchmix deadens the sound a bit too much.

 

[gerG]

Tried it, but haven't found anything useful yet. Their EQ "improvement" seems to be adding more gain range to the stock eq, so now it is even harder to make subtle adjustments. The rest sounds like canned eq and reverb effects. The brainwave worked, it gave me an instant headache.

otoh it is a fun toy to play with, and a good listening exercise to try to figure out what some of the effects are actually doing.

The really positive aspect is that someone managed to do this. Maybe they will add some parametric bands some day. That would be extremely useful (in conjunction with the coarse 10 band).

A clipping indicator would be very useful, but I haven't found it yet.

My impressions only. Give it a try, you might find something that you like in there.


gerG

 

[3lusiv3]

I had installed this about an hour before seeing this thread. It seems interesting so far, but I'm not convinced that it does anything worthwhile yet. I'll have to play around with it a bit more.

 

[Oliver :)]

Where is the manual? The Brainwave Inductor is nice, currently being refreshed...

Too bad it screws up the music...

 

[Sean H]

I've been trying it out and I agree with gerG's entire assessment. It is fun and I can find a couple neat settings but the levels I've used are very subtle and extremely minimal in order get anything decent. It's easy to destroy the signal. I agree that parametric EQ control would be a very cool option.