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Beta Test: DISTORT - audibility of distortions

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any headphone amp with dc protection.

Here is a test version to see if your DC issue is resolved. Please download and install version 1.0.21 (not officially released yet):

https://distortaudio.org/DistortSetup21.zip

There are some big differences in how the screen is laid out, all the distortion-related settings are now on the left, in a table. The one that controls DC is DC Removal = On or Off. To clear all settings (probably a good idea the first time you use this version) press the red X above the table:

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Please try this out and let me know if it helps.

Note: the old version you were using also removed DC, but only when saving the distorted file to disk, not when playing it directly from DISTORT.
 
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Here is a test version to see if your DC issue is resolved. Please download and install version 1.0.21 (not officially released yet):

https://distortaudio.org/DistortSetup21.zip

There are some big differences in how the screen is laid out, all the distortion-related settings are now on the left, in a table. The one that controls DC is DC Removal = On or Off. To clear all settings (probably a good idea the first time you use this version) press the red X above the table:

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Please try this out and let me know if it helps.

Note: the old version you were using also removed DC, but only when saving the distorted file to disk, not when playing it directly from DISTORT.

Here's the before and after example with 32 tone multi-tone test signal in version 1.0.21. As I said, DC was already removed properly for saved WAV files in the previous versions of DISTORT. Only playing the distorted waveform from inside the app could result in significant DC, which is now corrected with the DC Removal setting.

Before (DC Removal turned off):
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After (DC Removal turned on):
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Maybe if you raise the price you can compete with SETs ;)
 

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I'm planning a 100x price increase in the near future ;)
Make it draw tremendous power and wear out frequently, and you have something!
 
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Are there plans to implement the GedLee Metric into the Multitone Analyzer test app?
Probably the wrong thread for Multitone questions :) Are there any examples where the application of GedLee metric actually produced a useful result (outside of the original papers)?
 

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This is such a cool program and exactly what i've been looking for. When I import my own wav files though, they play back in mono even though its set to "Stereo". Any idea what might be going on? It will export the distorted file as a stereo file which plays back correctly in another player.
 

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This is such a cool program and exactly what i've been looking for. When I import my own wav files though, they play back in mono even though its set to "Stereo". Any idea what might be going on? It will export the distorted file as a stereo file which plays back correctly in another player.
Same file is played back in DISTORT that is saved to disk, so other than some non-standard output driver channel mapping, I can't imagine why it wouldn't play stereo.
 
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