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Hi all,can anyone help?Have you ever,be honest,downloaded an Mp3 song that you've been after for years,you don't want the album because the artist had say a one hit wonder,and the quality was a bit below par?You find your track,eagerly download it and at 128k/b/s,its missing the feel of it.
What can be done to lift it up?Give it emotion or an improvement?I've got Steinberg's WaveLab 5 and various plugins that come with it,and a Creative 24bit live soundcard,but where does one begin?I know I can't get it back to its original sound,but there must be something.A spectral analysis shows a steep cut at 15khz,I tried an EQ but got more hiss than anything.From a search on the www,I understand that a stereo recording can be made by a mono instrument(say an acoustic guitar) if recorded by left and right mics and the instrument plus room reverb creates a stereo recording.Is it not possible to use slight reverb,aka VST Plugin,to help create a sense of ambience?So far,with reverb effects,the music sounds exactly like its playing through a reverb.Can you add slight reverb to a particular band of frequencies covering voice or just percussion,or whatever?Maybe just efect one channel at a time.
Does anyone know how to put the BBE plugin in the output chain of MP3 player software to enhance the playback? I have the plugin, but I can't make WinAmp or WMP see it. (I'd really like to have Media Monkey see it, but that might be harder.) Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks...
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You might try to get your hands on the BBE Sonic Maximzer plugin. If used sparingly, it can add a touch more realism back to the mp3-derived .wavfile
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...if you want high rez sound.Here are two alternative choices:
- try MusicGiants.com high rez downloads @1100kbps
- or buy a used copy of the CD
The problem is that MP3 takes out big chunks of information that cannot be replaced, as you can see with the apparent brickwall filter they used at 15KHz. Adding echo to poor quality audio will result in poor sounding audio with some ambience added. It will still sound bad.128Kbs is a very low bitrate for MP3's. An excellent example is the intro to Royal Oil by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, which consists of a very low level drumroll that quickly builds in volume. At 128Kbs it sounds like noisy digital garbage. At 160 it's recognizable as a snare, at 192 VBR it's fairly close to the original.
In short, there's nothing you can really do, 128Kbs MP3 encoding just does too much damage to recover from, especially when there's heavy pre-filtering done.
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