Head-Fit: Software Crossfeed and EQ

[ironmine]

If the author of HeadFit still reads this thread, I would like to show to him this picture I get when I use HeadFit in my Foobar through George Yohng's VST wrapper and Console:
 

 
The crossfeed controls and EQ controls are both visible at the same time. Is it possible to fix this bug?

 

[leeperry]

 
Are you saying that Waves S1 Stereo Imager can be used as a crossfeed for headphones? Which slider should I use - WIDTH?

 
I dunno, didn't try it myself.
 
If you want head-fit's coder personal email, you can drop me a PM

 

[jlo]

Hi all,
thanks for your interest in head-fit.
I haven't been on this forum for quite a long time, sorry.
For the display bug on some machines, I'll fix it, just give me a few days. I also wrote that you want the level control (volume) to disappear, so please confirm.
And if you have other wishes,  let me know.
 
Bye
Jean-Luc
 

 

[cooperpwc]

Hi Jena Luc,
 
Absolutely right. I am using an old version without the display bug and without the volume control and it is great.
 
One further request: default display when the console appears should be Crossfeed not EQ.
 
Thanks!

 

[ironmine]

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I dunno, didn't try it myself.

I tried Waves Shuffler VST plugin and did not like how it sounded through headphones.

 

[ironmine]

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Hi all,
thanks for your interest in head-fit.
I haven't been on this forum for quite a long time, sorry.
For the display bug on some machines, I'll fix it, just give me a few days. I also wrote that you want the level control (volume) to disappear, so please confirm.
And if you have other wishes,  let me know.
 
Bye
Jean-Luc
 

Why remove the volume control ?!  The crossfeed effect results in an increased volume level (clipping). EQ also results in clipping (even when adjusting the peaks negatively). I cannot understand why people demand to remove the volume control. Do they prefer to listen to the clipped sound instead? If you don't need it, just leave it at zero. What's the problem?

 

[fufula]

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Why remove the volume control ?!  The crossfeed effect results in an increased volume level (clipping). EQ also results in clipping (even when adjusting the peaks negatively). I cannot understand why people demand to remove the volume control. Do they prefer to listen to the clipped sound instead? If you don't need it, just leave it at zero. What's the problem?

Agreed. If I don't lower the volume with crossfeed on there's some very noticeable clipping in some songs. Even if I didn't use the volume control myself, I wouldn't see the harm in leaving it as an option for those who do.

 

[leeperry]

you guys may wanna use EffectChainer in your VST host and put this plugin after head-fit so you can fine-tune the required attenuation to avoid clipping: http://www.sonalksis.com/freeg.htm

 

[ironmine]

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you guys may wanna use EffectChainer in your VST host and put this plugin after head-fit so you can fine-tune the required attenuation to avoid clipping: http://www.sonalksis.com/freeg.htm

 
Trying to lower the volume after the clipping occurred may be too late. Unless Head-Fit has some internal protection against clipping. I think it's better to lower the volume before Head-Fit.
 
Leeperry, try the Japanese vst-chaining program "Console". It's more visual and convenient.

 

[leeperry]

Oh sure, I meant using a meter to check the required attenuation within head-fit. I think it'd be wiser to keep the volume control in head-fit at the very beginning of its audio pipe-line.
 
Yes, I read a lot about console.jp but I've never got any use for it...It's supposedly useful on Reclock's output to do pre-filtering(bass management/delay for multiple speakers).

 

[leeperry]

I've been listening to head-lite in uLilith for several hours, after some quick try and uninstallation of Isone Pro(way too colored and limited to my taste)...quite honestly, my brain loves the clarity of uber-low jitter gear in movies(I use a 5.1>stereo downmix matrix that does xfeed of the rear channels), but music is way too fatiguing...a low jitter transport in dual-mono is very hard to process for my brain, it simply doesn't understand why the sound seems so realistic, and yet isn't in stereo

 
anyways, head-lite is a major relief, it's more colored than VNoPhones but also easier to listen to somehow? it feels like a good pair of loudspeakers, which is the ultimate goal I presume.
 
I've found instructions to the strange sliders in head-lite, but they seem to require the full version to set the sound to 60 degrees on each ear or sumthing? http://www.ohl.to/about-audio/audio-softwares/head-fit
 
Can I set those settings in the full version following the instructions, and then input them in head-lite? I'm not of fan of pink noise, though

 

[leeperry]

OK, I've set the sliders pretty randomly...but anyway it sounds great as is:
 
I love how bass becomes heart pounding, amazing! and the headstage has become more triangular shaped, like on the LT1028AC opamp...it also seems to project some elements that used to be hidden in the mix, like percussion drums or wah wah guitars(due to inverted phase?).
 
Manu Dibango's sax sounds holographic, Femi Kuti sounds like his band is playing before my eyes and the bass in that song is just AMAZING:  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=vid%3A1&q=Cymande+Genevieve
 
I've just tried to disable head-fit on that very song, and it sounds like dual mono...my left ear is jealous and also wants to hear the drums, hah! More importantly, my brain doesn't feel half-deaf anymore when I put it back on

 

[donunus]

I'll try headfit again with these settings

 

[donunus]

This setting is genius Leeperry. Whenever I tried to sync the highs and lows to one site with the default levels, they would sync only at settings that gave a relatively large midrange boost darkening the sound a little. This setting you have is the best compromise ive heard with headfit yet. The highs and lows could still probably be tuned to sync even more but I would have never thought this was possible since I got tired of setting sliders LOL. And they are already pretty synced actually. I might just actually leave it alone because I'm enjoying thios setting of yours too much

 

[leeperry]

hehe thanks, yes those settings are great...I haven't touched them in a week or so. I'm sure there's room for improvement, but I'm not too inclined on doing the calibration w/ white noise and all