Head-Fit: Software Crossfeed and EQ

[donunus]

Your Setting should be a good starting point for default settings. Way better than the current default

 

[cooperpwc]

Internet finally back up (ADSL instead of useless FOB; should be a lot better). I have downloaded the picture and now I will have to fire up the EMP and try these new settings. Thank for sharing, Leeperry. I will report back...

 

[shoenberg3]

I would really like this to work with my foobar. Can someone please reupload the old version?
The new version still has the wonky sliders that don't work.
Thanks

 

[leeperry]

I tried the beta of head-lite yesterday in foobar, and indeed the sliders didn't work. But I was able to open the .fxp file from uLilith.

 

[leeperry]

both the first beta of head-lite and the latest version of head-fit also freeze to death in FFX4, so I can't use them in combination with ffdshow/PotPlayer/Reclock

All the other plugins I've tried work fine FWIW. Currently trying the Redline Monitor crossfeed plugin but I don't really like it.

 

[donunus]

the redline concept is nice visually but sonically you are robbing headphones of their strengths

 

[leeperry]

yes, it's even got some really neat looking skins...but even if I set the center channel at max volume, it's still way too dim.
Isone also works fine, but bleh I dunno 
 
I hate how Murphy's law is always around the corner in the computer world..but one thing's for sure, Reclock sounds darn fine

 

[leeperry]

oh btw, the sliders work fine in foobar in the latest beta. hopefully, it'll be posted on the official website after some more thorough QA.

 

[donunus]

Is the latest beta also without the volume control?

 

[remedy1419]

I must be doing something wrong, I barely hear any change whatsoever no matter how I set it up. VST Wrapper is directed to the proper folder, head-fit lite is selected and not bypassed. I just hear a reduction in volume, and to actually hear crossfeed I had to listen to just pink noise and even then it was insanely subtle. Is it because my HD650's are unamped for now?
 
Set as follows:
 
Crossfeed on
EQ off
 
ILD LF: -9.9
ILD HF: -14.4
F:1375
ITD LF: 0.29
ITD HF: 0.19 (couldn't pick 20)

 

[donunus]

Thats the whole point... not to hear a change=no coloration. Only when listening to hard panned sounds will you feel the difference. For kicks, try the beginning of the song "fly away" by Lenny Kravitz. listen to the hard panned guitar switching crossfeed on and off. and yah slide it to .20 with your keyboard arrows to be more precise. .19 will add more coloration. In the end the mission here is to get fatigue free listening out of your headphones without even knowing that there is a change in quality so that you could leave it on for all the music you play. The only sonic difference besides the crossfeeding that I hear with Leeperrys genius setting is an ever so slightly more prominent bass. Were talking 1 db or so here. If your headphones are not detailed enough, you might not even hear a change in the bass but still whenever those hard panned stuff play, your opposite ear will thank you for this setting.

 

[leeperry]

ok the latest beta works like a charm in foobar, I use it in DS and upsample to 96kHz and then let it play in the background of Q3, so KMixer upsamples Q3 to 96kHz and then mixes them: perfect! 
 

 

[donunus]

I fine tuned the setting to cross less of the lower highs so that it is a little more coherent. Try it out and AB test it with various hard panned tracks to compare with other presets. I like this setting best so far. Maybe I can fine tune it more but this is what I found to be approximately the best IMO for Leeperry's .29 .10 F1375 setting....
 

 
I will try different F central settings too but as of now I find Leeperrys 1375 setting at .29 .20 quite brilliant.

 

[leeperry]

very nice, but it seems to make the the crossfed image SS height lower than my settings somehow?

 

[donunus]

 it could be because the difference in the frequency response of the crossfed signal could sound better with the cans you are using? hmmm I don't know. I find the -14.4 a little bright. Are you comparing them side by side by switching between presets?