Category Archives: Equalization

Audio equalization

SonicBirth ~ Create Powerful Audio Plugins

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SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing MacOS application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and creativity over your sound.

sonicbirth

sonicbirth.sourceforge.net

JAMin ~ JACK Mastering Interface

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JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA for digital signal processing (DSP). JAMin is licensed under the GPL.

Features:

  • Linear filters
  • JACK I/O
  • 30 band graphic EQ
  • 1023 band hand drawn EQ with parametric controls
  • Spectrum analyser
  • 3 band peak compressor
  • Lookahead brickwall limiter
  • Multiband stereo processing
  • Presets and scenes
  • Loudness maximizer

jamin

jamin.sourceforge.net

freeDSP ~ DIY Audio DSP Project

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The freeDSP is an open-source digital signal processor family for the do-it-yourself community. The applications range from active loudspeaker concepts (digital crossovers, bass enhancement, …) and room equalization over advanced musical effect processors to car audio signal processing.

freeDSP_1_0_side_small

www.freedsp.cc

CoolPlayer ~ Blazing Fast Win32 Player

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Blazing Fast Audio Player for Win32 Environments

Features:

  • GNU General Public License
  • Freeform Skins
  • Simple User Interface
  • Advanced Playlist Editor
  • Internet Streaming
  • ID3 Multi Tagger
  • File Renamer
  • Fast mp3->wav Converter
  • MAD mpeg Engine
  • OGG Vorbis Support
  • Winamp Input Plugins Support
  • Smallest executable programmed in blazing fast ‘C’
  • Continuous Play
  • 8 Band Convolution Equalizer
  • Lot’s more…

coolplayer

coolplayer.sourceforge.net
Skins

rePhase ~ Loudspeaker Phase Linearization

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rePhase is a FIR generation tool for building fully linear-phase active crossovers with arbitrary slopes.

It also let you manually compensate for the phase shifts of your loudspeakers and existing crossovers, be it active or passive.

Once generated, the FIR can be applied using any hardware (openDRC, miniSHARC, Najda, …) or software (foobar, convolver, JRiver, …), stereo or multi-way convolution engine.

sourceforge.net/projects/rephase

Additional resources:

Equalizer APO, REW and Rephase WOW! ~ diyAudio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_room_correction

Equalizer APO ~ A Windows System Equalizer

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Equalizer APO is a parametric / graphic equalizer for Windows. It is implemented as an Audio Processing Object (APO) for the system effect infrastructure introduced with Windows Vista.

Features:

  • virtually unlimited number of filters
  • works on any number of channels
  • very low latency, which makes it suited for interactive applications
  • low CPU usage
  • modular graphical user interface
  • VST plugin support
  • integrates into Voicemeeter (www.voicemeeter.com)

Equalizer APO is best used in conjunction with Room EQ Wizard (www.roomeqwizard.com ), because it can read its filter text file format.

equalizer apo
sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo
Discussion
Documentation
Downloads

User Interfaces:

Peace Equalizer
EQ APO GUI
mega-switcher

Resources:

Room Equalization Tutorial
Equalizer APO issues solver

REW ~ Room EQ Wizard

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REW is free room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analyzing room and loudspeaker responses. The audio analysis features of REW help you optimize the acoustics of your listening room, studio or home theater and find the best locations for your speakers, subwoofers and listening position.

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www.roomeqwizard.com
www.hometheatershack.com/forums/rew-forum
sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo
Multi-Sub Optimizer
Convolver – A Convolution Plugin