Registered: Mar 2002
From: Singapore

Does Winamp have a Noise Sharpening plugin?

Foobar having one is causing some hype online.

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

Now it does.

(Hacked together in about a minute, it could probably be refined some.)

Edit: slightly improved, now goes to 200% as in foobar

Attachment: noise_sharpening_02.zip
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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Singapore

Wow!!

Fast.

I shall try it.

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Registered: Mar 2003
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Hi --

Sorry, but I'm not very familiar with a lot of this stuff.

What, exactly, does it do, and how do you get it to work?

Thanks much.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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The file is a Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio preset. While Winamp is not running save or copy the file to Winamp's Plugins\DSP_SPS folder.

In Winamp you can use gaekwad2's preset by...
1. Ctrl+P (for preferences)
2. Plug-ins > DSP/Effects
3. Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP > Configure button
4. Load button
5. Open 'noise sharpening 0.2'
6. make sure 'Enable processing' is checkmarked
7. adjust the slider to your liking

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

To be completely anal: the attached file is a zip archive, the .sps file has to be extracted into DSP_SPS (never assume people know this ).


What it does:

It adds the diffeence between the current and the previous sample to the signal, thus boosting high frequencies (mostly the top octave ie. 11-22kHz in case of CD/44.1kHz files) and causing slight distortion.

To quote the description of the original foobar plugin:

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This started out as sort of a toy plugin containing DSPs for differentiation (input f(t), output f'(t)) and integration (input f(t), output F(t))

Recently a DSP for playback of f(t)+f'(t) has been added, in layman's terms this enhances treble / noise / transient content and can be seen as the audio equivalent of image sharpening filters.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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You are not being anal. I completely forgot to mention the file should be extracted first.

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Singapore

So is it the same effect if you just increase the treble on the sound controls?

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Registered: Mar 2003
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Hi, All --

Thanks very much for that info. I do know all about zip files and CTRL-P, etc. It's just that I know nothing about an SPS file and what this plugin would do. Now I know.

Thanks again, guys.

Take care.

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

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Originally posted by iron2000
So is it the same effect if you just increase the treble on the sound controls?

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Registered: Jun 2004
From: Memphis TN

is there a DSP stacker plugin? or is there a way to use 2 DSP's at the same time in CTRL+P?

<edit>I'm asking cuz I also use AudioStocker Pro</edit>

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Registered: Dec 2000
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DSP Stackers

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Registered: Jun 2004
From: Memphis TN

ah thank you JonnyMac-son :ninja:

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

Oh, in case anyone's interested: I played a little with the code and made two versions with extended options.

Slider 1 and 2 work the same as in 0.2, in 0.3-1 slider 3 and 4 add the second and third differential, in 0.3-2 they add the difference over 2 and 3 samples.

If someone wants to try them out and see if they're any use (I don't use dsps myself ):

Attachment: noisesharpening_03.zip
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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Singapore

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Originally posted by gaekwad2
Oh, in case anyone's interested: I played a little with the code and made two versions with extended options.

Slider 1 and 2 work the same as in 0.2, in 0.3-1 slider 3 and 4 add the second and third differential, in 0.3-2 they add the difference over 2 and 3 samples.

If someone wants to try them out and see if they're any use (I don't use dsps myself ):

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

Just play with them and see if any combination sounds good.

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Registered: Oct 2004
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...like a knife going into my ears

Cheers for this - my Inspires seem to have a problem with sharp sound, this seems to help it rather a lot xD

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Singapore

I asked and now theres Noise Sharpening for kX drivers!
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthr...6457#post606457

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

Submitted my presets at winamp.com, let's see if they get accepted.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Good luck!

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Registered: Jun 2004
From: Memphis TN

I hope they do get accepted .. but I haven't been able to find a dsp stacker that works the way I like .. :S .. but it does sound real real good tho

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: bar2000

Bleh, database is acting up again.

I don't think I'll resubmit them, this preset works (almost) the same if you pull the bass/treble slider all the way to treble and set boost to zero but has some additional options including normalizing/compression.

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Registered: May 2005
From: Right behind you, foo'.

Goddamn. That little SPS preset owns so badly. My sound is now alot crisper. gaekwad2, i'll sacrifice an extra goat for you tonight

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