In the SOX documentation there's a link to EarWax (http://www.geocities.com/beinges/), an effect available in SOX that should give results similar to
Crossfeed (Trelane's fb2k/winamp plugin) and
Headplug (Winamp plugin by hustbaer).
I'll probably include it in my Headphone plugin test (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=7763&hl=headplug) when something that's got higher priority on my to-do list is done.
Has anyone tried it already?
I've created some samples using SOX+Earwax and added the links to the Headphone Plugin Test (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=7763&hl=headplug) thread.
I listened to it myself. Here my findings:
+ in some cases I tested (e.g. castanets) the sound seems to be moved in front a bit indeed. It seems to work pretty well (i.e. moving sounds outof the head) with high pitched sounds/instruments
- The sound is changed very much: less bass; more, too sharp hights
- Clipping is easily produced: castanets needs to be amplified by 0.7 to avoid (awfully sounding) clipping
- Having a look at spectral view it's clearly noticable that the echos and filters applied caused some frequency bands to disappear - decombing would be necessary.
Result: I don't like it - it makes listening through headphones much worse.
Just curious - has anyone tried this again on a newer version of SoX?
If yes, are there any improvements to warrant using it now almost 9 years after this thread was started?
Thanks!
Just curious - has anyone tried this again on a newer version of SoX?
If yes, are there any improvements to warrant using it now almost 9 years after this thread was started?
There hasn't been any development on the earwax effect, as far as I can see.