Which process should I choose for a commercial recording?
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Do you want to rip a CD or process a file to:
- Listen on headphones?
- Listen on loudspeakers?
- Upconvert stereo to Surround Sound?
- Decode a Dolby Surround recording?
- Strip HF pre-emphasis from a CD?
- Undo limiting damage from modern mastering?
- Convert Quadraphonic recordings?
- Convert Ambisonic recordings?
- Render a mono recording into stereo?
- Convert a binaural recording?
- Add analogue warmth?
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Needle-Drops: Which processes should I use?
Equalisation & Filtering
- Accurate RIAA correction
- Historic recording curves
- Neumann Pole (eRIAA)
- Linear-phase rumble filter
- Needle-scratch filter
Other DSP
- Clicks & pops removal
- LP distortion cancellation
- Phono-cartridge compensation
- Half-speed needle-drops
- Three-quarter speed needle-drops
- Hum removal
- Convert Quadraphonic recordings?
- Convert Ambisonic recordings?
How to begin
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Which filter should I choose as a sound engineer?
Stereo Lab supports:
- FRANCINSTIEN stereo shuffling
- Bride of FRANCINSTIEN
- FRANCINSTIEN T-Sym
- Stereo to 5.1 upconversion
- Quadraphonic transcoding
- Ambisonics UHJ transcoding
- Crossed-fours processing
- Binaural to stereo
- Historic record EQ
- Mono to stereo conversion
- Groove analogue-warmth processing
- Leq loudness measurement
- Metadata handling
See the Application Table for an overview of the microphone processors.
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How can Stereo Lab help with cassettes and tapes?
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Listening on headphones
You'll need Head Space or Aria 20.
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Listening on loudspeakers
Are you:
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Stereo Lab & Surround / Quadraphonic Processing
Enhance stereo to 5.1, 5.0 or 4.0.
Quadraphonic and Ambisonic transcoding supported with high accuracy.
More info: Stereo to Surround | Quadraphonics | Ambisonics | CD-4 quadraphonic
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Binaural to Stereo Conversion
Transform binaural recordings for loudspeaker playback with astonishing realism.
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Improving Digital Files
You may want:
Learn why they improve stereo: How FRANCINSTIEN works
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Adding Analogue Warmth
Use a FRANCINSTIEN enhancer followed by Groove.
More details: Groove processing