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What is Gullfoss?
Gullfoss is an intelligent EQ plugin that dynamically changes the EQ up to 100 times a second to “increase the perception of clarity, space and dimension” in recorded content (Tavaglione, 2018). It does not do this with AI, neural networks, machine learning, psychoacoustics, or DSP techniques. It does it using a proprietary “computational auditory perception…
Loudness Wars
Since the adoption of the CD as a music format in the 1980s the volume of music has been increasing steadily over time. To the point that in some master’s dynamics have been sacrificed to the gods of loud. This has been named, ‘The Loudness Wars’ (Robjohns, 2014). So, I decided to look for the…
History and development of Equalization
The first user-adjustable EQ was created in the 1930s by John Volkmann while he was at RCA (Szikla, 2022). He created it to get better sound for motion picture theatres. It allowed movie theatres to selectively boost or cut frequencies to make them movies played sound better. At around the same time Arthur Davis from…