Just for kicks, I thought I'd play around with recording some 1980s,
Def-Leppard-like stacked background vocals. After some digging and
reading, I found out that one of the main tricks used to get that
breathy, airy sound was probably a Dolby A encoder (without its
complementary decoder).

There aren't any Dolby A encoder plugins available in software, and
after reading the older threads here I imagine that there never will be,
since Ray Dolby doesn't want to make them and nobody else seems to feel
like digging up the patents and doing it without the benefit of the
Dolby name.

But I don't need to do proper, decodable Dolby A; I just want to
simulate that general sound. I've been unable to find even the basic
parameters used in Dolby A, and given how old it is, I can't imagine
it's that complicated a process by today's standards. Can anyone give
me more details than "roll off the lows, scoop the mids, boost the
highs"?

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