software to emulate different consumer electronics

[Eric Gibson]

Hey,

Has anyone ever heard of a software plugin or something, that I could put on my
stereo bus to emulate different consumer audio devices?... like boomboxes, computer
speakers, etc. I guess it's called EQ... but there might be something out there.


Eric

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I have a driverack studio... www.driverack.com. They have several driverack
models. The one I have is about $480 street. It has presets that simulate
several devices. You still need to test on a real boom box, down the hall,
in a car, etc, but the presets help get you in the ballpark and provides
routing and crossover capabilities to use more than one set of monitors
painlessly. You could route one of the stereo outputs to a real boom box
and/or Auratone and/or NS10 etc. It goes into your signal chain after the
mixer, before the monitors.

I bought it for the routing capabilities and to play with the RTA. It is a
middle of the road eq/compressor/limiter. Nothing spectacular. There are
some who would say it is cheeze. I am getting good results with it though.
There is a lot more to getting good accurate sound than RTA so don't trust
the RTA without learning how it works and something about room acoustics
first. It cannot solve room problems and reacts to standing waves and nulls
by drastic frequency cuts or boosts. Not the way to deal with these
problems.

It has saved me innumerable cds in only 3 months. Seriously, I can get 80%
tested without leaving my seat or burning a cd. I have a 100 pack that has
lasted for 4 months. I used to go through 1 a month.

You could build some presets on a software plugin EQ to do something
similar. If you have software EQ, I could mail you the EQ curves they are
using and the results would probably be very similar.

"Eric Gibson" > wrote in message
...
> Hey,
>
> Has anyone ever heard of a software plugin or something, that I could
put on my
> stereo bus to emulate different consumer audio devices?... like boomboxes,
computer
> speakers, etc. I guess it's called EQ... but there might be something out
there.
>
>
> Eric
>
>

[SDeFusco25]

> Has anyone ever heard of a software >plugin or something, that I could put
>on my
>stereo bus to emulate different consumer audio devices?... like boomboxes,
>computer

I got some junk mail a month ago from Swee****er about a unit they made that
does exactly this. I can't find it on their site though. Maybe someone here
knows more about it.

-Scott

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Has anyone ever heard of a software plugin or something, that I could put
> on my
> stereo bus to emulate different consumer audio devices?... like boomboxes,
> computer
> speakers, etc.

There are speaker simulators but I can't recall them in plug-in
format. Roland used to (maybe still does) have a speaker simulator for
their VS series when used with the Roland speakers with the digital
input. You could select what you wanted to "hear" your mix through and
it changed things (probalby more than just frequency response) to
emulate it. I don't know how accurate those emulations were, but they
sure were different from straight through.


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[Ralf Köster]

> If you have software EQ, I could mail you the EQ curves they are
> using and the results would probably be very similar.

Actually this could be a good application for these new "impulse =
response answer" type of plugins. Such you could even emulate your =
transistor in the kitchen or your hands free in the car. (Oh, I should =
get a patent on this idea before there is a freeware plugin that does =
this ;-)

....Ralf

[William Sommerwerck]

Actually this could be a good application for these new "impulse response
answer" type of plugins. Such you could even emulate your transistor in the
kitchen or your hands free in the car. (Oh, I should get a patent on this idea
before there is a freeware plugin that does this ;-)

Forget it. I thought of this over 30 years ago, and I was hardly the first
person to do so. It's a trivial idea, obvious to anyone familiar with Laplace
Transforms.