Saturday, May 25, 2013

A new IEEE article quotes my loudness war paper and presents a linear and perceptually transparent method of reducing peak amplitudes by around 2.5 dB using an allpass filter chain. Clever idea.

Parker, J.; Valimaki, V., "Linear Dynamic Range Reduction of Musical Audio Using an Allpass Filter Chain," Signal Processing Letters, IEEE , vol.20, no.7, pp.669,672, July 2013.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6516022&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A6515149%29