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Har bal mastering Pc#
Of course there's a lot more to creating a perfect track than EQ, but it's still important.Ĭurrently available only as a stand-alone PC application that runs under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP, and consisting of a spectrum analysis engine and an 8192-point linear-phase digital filter, Harbal is a considerable improvement over other similar products I've reviewed in the past including Steinberg's Freefilter and Voxengo's CurveEQ, because it incorporates A-weighted compensation for perceived loudness changes. Harbal is short for ' harmonic balancing', and is developer Paavo Jumppanen's superior take on 'EQ ripping', the technique of matching the frequency response of the target audio file to that of a reference, to hopefully turn an ailing track into one that sounds much more like a world-class commercial product. I first mentioned Harbal back in PC Notes November 2003, having been intrigued by the demo version of its 'visual mastering system'. Harbal enables you to shape the EQ of your mastered mixes to match any reference track, and by compensating for the loudness changes involved in doing so, it provides a truly neutral means of comparing the original and the treated master. Harbal's main spectral display is extremely informative, containing peak and average curves plus a mean of the two, any of which can be used as a basis for EQ adjustments using the triple-crosshead cursor shown here.