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now i can sound like a pro
Author: lematt on March 02 2008 Viewed 1723 times. 17 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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yesterday i help the father of my girlfriend to move his audiophile stereo (3 meters high speakers, 50000 $ valve preamps and amps etc...) and he gave me a pure analogic stereo dynamic expander.
i just tried it, and it's da shiznit ! just plug my lappy and the output of the little box in a stereo, and it's TOTALLY amazing !
do you know about that annoying thing when you render your track and it always sounds weak compared to a real, pro mastered track ? it's over for me now !
i just have to play my track through this magic box and re-record it, and it sounds great !
the guy making those boxes is a french electronician well known in the audiophile world: Hubert Dalix. His brand is DXE.
Don't know the price of the expander though... and i'm not sure i wanna know  | |
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seanh
allow me to be the first to say: pics or STFU
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astroboy
smapples or STFU
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license
can we send you FLACs to run through it that you can re-record and send back?
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skab
nice acquisition, lematt
like license said - it's time to pimp that unit out
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SeanShea
Yeah, I'd like to send you a test tone so i can get a good impulse response of it.
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oerfil
Lets hear it dude!
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ocp
Yeah! some A B samples would be nice...
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tantan
50k preamps!!!! jeebiz
jealousness yr new toy
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lematt
yeah ok i will send pics and samples a & b, but i just moved from one flat to another so i need to settle up again.
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lematt
here is the link to the homepage of the expander: link
just found the price: 900 € (sic)
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nutjob
I'm confused. I imagine mastering of electronic music to involve compression... reducing the dynamic range...
So this sound you're getting... its not just that you're driving it and getting nice distortion characteristics... you are actually increasing the dynamic range? Is this expansion related to punch? Are you making the transients louder relative to the 'body' of the sound, at the expense of loudness?
I love this world, there's so much to learn!
Anyone care to skool me on upward and downward expansion?
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daswesen
an impulse response from that wouldn't really work, no? impulse response and convolution can model linear systems (like EQ, or reverb), while expanding and compression (and distortion) is nonlinear. i think there are some techniques to try to "capture" nonlinear systems. i may remember things from uni wrong though, i remember reading up on some magic digital systems modelling compressors.
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skab
You can model this kind of thing, I think. But it's pretty tricky AFAIK. Impulse responses wouldn't produce an accurate model, but I bet they'd make some great sounds
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lematt
anyway... i'm not a big mastering head at all.
all that i know is that when you play a track through it: it sounds better... and louder.
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lematt
> to nutjob: in fact, that box acts pretty much like a Waves L2 plugin.
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