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And yet another one that I described elsewhere: Add a singleband AGC-style compressor just before the Final Limiter (same place where the singleband compressor is now), with high up/down speeds. Reason: This causes a bit of pumping, but not that much, while keeping the RMS volume more constant. And the RMS volume is the most important thing for the quality that comes out of the Final Limiter and Loudness filters - so this would introduce a bit of pumping (careful listening to many FM stations shows that a lot of them do this also!) but at the same time make the sound much cleaner, which enables a louder output and/or a cleaner sound. This effect can be heard very clearly when you play Lady Gaga - Alejandro and compare the sound of FM Loud (Bass) and FM Hot. Both have nearly the same output level, but FM Hot has far more pumping and much cleaner highs. By placing the singleband AGC just before Final Limiter the pumping can be minimized while the cleaner highs can be maximized.

But what is important! To add another thing for compressor . .and that is "ratio" !! (+ knee)

....Add a singleband AGC-style compressor just before the Final Limiter (same place where the singleband compressor is now....

But I hope that you have not replaced the singleband compressor with this new singleband

New version with new default settings for AGC up and down speed and remove remaining peaks:
Winamp DSP plugin: http://www.stereotool.com/download/dsp_ ... A510-3.exe

1. Idea for a new feature: Less strict limiting for web radio stations.

Rationale: For web radio stations, it's not really useful to limit the sound very strictly below a peak level, because the peaks change anyway during the MP3/AAC/... encoding.

In some cases (difficult sound) the very strict filtering DOES have a pretty big effect on audio quality.

So: For web radio, turn off the final filtering stage (that removes all the remaining peaks). "HARD LIMIT" should be turned off as well, but this idea also includes skipping the last stage of the "Loudness" filter.


2.And another one: Allow configuring AGC gating relative to input level instead of Pre Amp'ed input level. That makes it easier to create a preset where you can just change the Pre Amp value without changing the gating behavior - which in turn would allow me to include gating in the default ST presets.


3.And yet another one that I described elsewhere: Add a singleband AGC-style compressor just before the Final Limiter (same place where the singleband compressor is now), with high up/down speeds. Reason: This causes a bit of pumping, but not that much, while keeping the RMS volume more constant. And the RMS volume is the most important thing for the quality that comes out of the Final Limiter and Loudness filters - so this would introduce a bit of pumping (careful listening to many FM stations shows that a lot of them do this also!) but at the same time make the sound much cleaner, which enables a louder output and/or a cleaner sound. This effect can be heard very clearly when you play Lady Gaga - Alejandro and compare the sound of FM Loud (Bass) and FM Hot. Both have nearly the same output level, but FM Hot has far more pumping and much cleaner highs. By placing the singleband AGC just before Final Limiter the pumping can be minimized while the cleaner highs can be maximized.

It is somewhat ridculus in not having proper documentation for it especially an in-depth clarification of the settings.