TL:DW; Classic Airwindows subtle analog modeling. Desk Now that we’re done for now with dithers (though the contest to name my best wordlength reducer ever is still going, and will run until February 1 when that one’s made public) it’s time to get into something more interesting. Namely, the canonical version of Airwindows Desk, brought […]
TL;DW: Deterministic dither uses Benford Realness calculations for each sample. NaturalizeDither Last and definitely not least in the dither-fest: Naturalize! This dither is often considered best by listeners. It works on every genre, at every sample rate. It adds no tonal color to the audio, and the noise it produces is quiet… but more than […]
TL;DW: The testbed for the TPDF-based dithers. Flanger dither! NodeDither And just one more dither plugin before the eagerly anticipated Naturalize… (because who will care about these then?) …NodeDither, the testbed upon which PaulDither and TapeDither were developed! I still think it’s good to have those as separate plugins (for simplicity and purity of concept) […]
TL;DW: Spatial positioning and clarity dither. SpatializeDither Spatialize is one of my high-performance boutique dithers. Though I think my Naturalize beats it, that’s a preference: I like digital sound to sound organic and real, and I like ambience and foggy distance and other things Naturalize is great at emphasizing. Spatialize is also good at reverb […]
