I don't want to restart a discussion on the commercials being louder than t he show, it's all been done. They are upcompressed so even if they aren't t hey seem like it.
I am tired of fantastic dynamic range. My hearing is a bit off finally and I don't even want decent dynamic range. You could almost say I want NO dyna mic range. I know there is such a feature on alot of TVs now but I don't ha ve a TV. I watch whatever I watch on the internet. The sound goes from the computer to a stereo amp.
It's not just the middle of the night trying to hear whispers and then havi ng something blow up, it's just normal dialogue.
I want it so hard upcompressed it brings up the noise. Really, I will put u p with it. If you remember how old movies used to sound, when the film went real quiet and you heard the ALC bring up the noise ? Well I want it like that but with a much faster time constant. Much faster.
Does such a unit exist or will I have to build one ? I am not above that yo u know, but if I do I might want to knock heads with those around here fami liar with audio, I might need at least two bands, and I think there should be a user settable limit so it doesn't really get too out of hand.
The laptop I'm on right now has a compressor to keep the amp from clipping into the eentsy yittle speakers but all it does is to make music sound like s*it. Really, like an AM radio. It really doesn't do what I want, but it's closer than alot of things I heard.
If there is a program that can do this in software that would suit me as we ll.
If I have to build it I think I got a pair of old ECG 829 which are MC 3340 . I am not that concerned with quality, don't need a delta gain stage, just the right equalization and limits etc. When I want quality I will bypass t he thing.
I know the MC3340 is not quite esoteric hifi to say the least, but the appl ication I was going to use it for was a dynamic power limiter, or anti-clip circuit in an audio amp where the design would have it out of circuit when inactive so its distortion would only be there when the amp would have bee n clipping anyway. It was going to partially bypass the main negative feedb ack but only when a comparator sensed major differences in the input and ou tput. Of course that feature was never installed which is why I still have the ICs after 20+ years.
Anyhoo, something off the shelf or even downloadable would be fine. If I ha ve to build something I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.