DFX Audio Enhancer

[Slix]

Is there any possibility of getting an optional effect ingame, just like dfx audio enhancer does to media players? It makes songs sound awesome.

How to try it out:

1. Load up your favorite song in your favorite player (Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger works REALLY well)

2. Listen to it, you don't have to listen to all of it, the first 30 seconds is okay.

3. Install DFX Audio Enhancer from their site (Don't be lazy, google it! Give your fingers some exercise!)

4. Listen to it again with the addon running (MAKE SURE IT IS IN ON MODE!!)


Makes quite a difference, so thats why I really want it to be in audio-surf

[Psy-T]

while i'm not opposed to the concept of winamp plug-ins being available for audiosurf, i wouldn't advise using 'dfx audio enhancer' or the likes, because they work by boosting up various arbitrary frequencies and/or compressing/limiting/et cetera. it's not an actual improvement, it's roughly the same as increasing the volume, and usually hurts hearing more rapidly than increasing the volume.

[Rynex]

Perhaps when the game is able to expand on itself, we could see something like a DFX Audio Enhancer being implemented. Since the game is able to play sound, then there is no limitation on something like this ever happening.

[Phetal]

"audio enhancers" do exactly what most modern pop producers do... make it louder. A bit off topic, but it's this trend in production that is absolutely ruining music.
For instance, listen to any song on the Red Hot Chili Pepper's album Stadium Arcadium. Open up your EQ/Visualizer and you'll notice that the bars are almost always near the top. There's no dynamic range!

Stuff that's louder sounds "better," so that's why this trend exists, but really it just ends up homogenizing so much of the music produced today.

[Zonr_0]

bring back the pianissimissimo in music!

on topic, the ideas of audio plugins does sound cool though.

[Slix]

Louder?

Erm, ok, you are mistaken.

Read the stuff thats on it now.

[EdZ]

I'm afraid that 'audio enhancers' are the DSP equivalent of snake oil. No magical algorithm will suddenly make your music sound better. It may fiddle with the equaliser a bit, or add some spatialisation, but that will just make your music sound 'different', not necessarily 'better'. Plus you could do the same with the standard settings of most (decent) audio playback programs anyway.

There's a reason audio restoration engineers are paid large sums of money to work for months on a single 3-4 minute track. Enhancing audio is HARD, because our ears are very sensitive organs.

[drewseleski]

If you think about it there is nothing these programs do that any recording studio couldn't/wouldn't do.  So basically any music "enhancing" will have already been done.  There are really only two cases where fiddling with playback values like these would help.
A.  Listening to music recorded before we had this technology that hasn't been remastered
B.  Having adjustments tailored to your specific speakers.
Oh and I guess in that case that you actually believe these silly programs help
C.  Placebo Effect

[ElGato]

"audio enhancers" do exactly what most modern pop producers do... make it louder. A bit off topic, but it's this trend in production that is absolutely ruining music.
For instance, listen to any song on the Red Hot Chili Pepper's album Stadium Arcadium. Open up your EQ/Visualizer and you'll notice that the bars are almost always near the top. There's no dynamic range!

Stuff that's louder sounds "better," so that's why this trend exists, but really it just ends up homogenizing so much of the music produced today.

Agree with you, [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war]newly produced music is "flat" and it becomes worse and worse[/url]...

So I don't agree with these sorts of things. Adjusting bass/treble would be well enough.