ABBEY ROAD SOURCE SHOOTOUT!!!

[paul62]

Here is the xml script for loading into audacity's equaliser: https://tinyurl.com/4pvky4p3

Good one, Rory Leith! Is this based on the curve shared in an interesting thread about CD De-emphasis from Audacity's forum?
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=106530

Here's a pictorial view of Rory's curve for anybody interested to see how it looks:

[Lord Reith]

Here is the xml script for loading into audacity's equaliser: https://tinyurl.com/4pvky4p3

Good one, Rory Leith! Is this based on the curve shared in an interesting thread about CD De-emphasis from Audacity's forum?
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=106530

That's where I got it from yes.

OK, took awhile but figured out it doesn't actually go in the Program or Program/plugins folders where most of the plugins are it goes in 1/Appdata/Audacity.

Sorry, I didn't explain you open the equaliser and click IMPORT and then click on the curve in the list on the left, then OK, then that window closes and you then pick the curve again from the dropdown list which then configures the equaliser.

[paul62]

Found a list of CDs suspected/known to have pre-emphasis: I don't think it's an exhaustive list (and this post doesn't really belong in this thread...but thought I'd post it here, anyway).
http://studio-nibble.com/cd/index.php?t ... ease_list)

[ianbuckers]

The analogue de-emphasis circuit was a simple thing made from a few capacitors and resistors. Back in my analogue electronics days I used to make these sorts of analogue filters all the time and they are not very accurate. The parts commonly have a 5% tolerance, which means when you combine a bunch of these together the end result can be a total crap shoot. I would not trust the playback of an old cd player over a modern software filter which is designed to exactly invert the pre-emphasis curve.

Yes yes LR...exactly what I was trying to express elsewhere on the board. So an analogue rip cannot be treated as the benchmark.