Poll: choose your favorite Dolby EQ setting

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I had to download an app on my phone to make the Focusrite Scarlett Solo be able to record from a Mic into my phone.
this is a great and simple little app.

When you save a video it gives you the options to enhance it with Dolby signature settings.

I recorded a simple few chords to demonstrate this.
Help choose which one you think sounds best.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Well I can't figure out how to add a poll...

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[Bogner]

NONE

 

[GuitarStv]

I think I liked the lyric one the best.

 

[Bogner]

None ( the first one) had the least top end sizzle to my ears and sounded the most natural. All of the others sounded tin like and were just louder or placed more or less forward (to my ears). The shifts took away from the natural width of the amp and made things sound too extreme in a certain area. I felt the other sounds diminished what the amp brought to the table.

 

[DankStar]

Standard, with natural a close second

 

[LLL]

I don't know... the concept (Dolby in an app) sounds like useless fluff.

Last time I used Dolby for anything was in the age of cassette tapes... it helped remove the hiss, remember?

I can't see any use for Dolby nowadays unless I were scoring a movie soundtrack.

 

[Bogner]

I don't know... the concept (Dolby in an app) sounds like useless fluff.

Last time I used Dolby for anything was in the age of cassette tapes... it helped remove the hiss, remember?

I can't see any use for Dolby nowadays unless I were scoring a movie soundtrack.

Or scoring some coke in knee high tube socks with Richard Simmons running shorts and a Village People tank top...terrycloth of course.

 

[LLL]

Or scoring some coke in knee high tube socks with Richard Simmons running shorts and a Village People tank top...terrycloth of course.

There's something very disturbing about that image...

 

[NegativeEase]

I had to download an app on my phone to make the Focusrite Scarlett Solo be able to record from a Mic into my phone.
this is a great and simple little app.

When you save a video it gives you the options to enhance it with Dolby signature settings.

I recorded a simple few chords to demonstrate this.
Help choose which one you think sounds best.

First all of them to me have too much above around 5k for my tastes but if I mentally tame the 6.6k Eq slider in my head....

I like Natural and Lyric the best, both remind me of good seperated tones for a 2 guitar band with the other guitar being more scooped.

Amped is the least usuable to me, sounds plastic and a sizzle fest -like someone tried to use a BBE Sonic Maximizer on 11.

 

[NegativeEase]

Also "natural and Lyric" EQ settings reminds me of the classic Karp live tone...

and I consider them the GOAT of 90s metal/punk shows.

but their albums are both low fi -so I think it's hard to understand how truly badass they were for people who did not witness

 

[beaubrummels]

None sounded the best to me (though I didn't hear the Deep setting? Did I miss it?). It could use some top-end EQ to smooth off the fizz. Maybe just do that at the amp and call it a day. It's pretty good as-is considering it's a phone recording (granted the I/O is doing it's job here). Lyric to me might be ok for a lead line mixed with a band. Natural was ok for me also, though a little more fizzy. All of them still need some touch-up EQ.

IME Dolby pre-sets are almost always going to be too extreme, especially in affordable mid-level solutions like the Solo I/O. Pre-sets tend to exaggerate each effect so the average person can hear what it's doing, but it would have been better if the pre-sets were halved in effect or run in parallel with the source signal. It would have sounded totally produced then.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I skipped the deep and thump settings, they were complete mud.

 

[JOLLY]

I skipped the deep and thump settings, they were complete mud.

If they sound worse that the "amped", I've got to hear them so I can either laugh and/or puke.

 

[LLL]

like someone tried to use a BBE Sonic Maximizer on 11.

Ah yes the Sonic Maximizer. Had one in the 80s, but used it on my 24 ch PA

It was a secret weapon for guitar tone for a few famous engineers like Michael Wagener

I thought it really worked well on cassette tape - making things sound almost as clear as a CD.

 

[NegativeEase]

Ah yes the Sonic Maximizer. Had one in the 80s, but used it on my 24 ch PA

It was a secret weapon for guitar tone for a few famous engineers like Michael Wagener

I thought it really worked well on cassette tape - making things sound almost as clear as a CD.

Yep -they were great if used judiciously - and later, the Aphex 323a compellor/aural exciter was even better

 

[Bogner]

There's something very disturbing about that image...

It fits right in for mental insanity month back in the day. :lmao::lmao::lmao: