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 shit. 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.