ARGOBEL BLOG

Diamond Cut DC8 builds on the solid DC8 foundation and adds many new features to make it a "State of The Art" audio restoration system. We have again listened to our customers and added enhancements to many aspects of the program . We have improved the click detection and replacement with the addition of our Big Click Filter, adding sophisticated spectral editing with our Direct Spectral Editing mode, added new audio enhancement filters and updated the CD burning capability with a full featured CD and DVD burner. We have added direct support for many more file types like Broadcast Wave, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.

Here is a list of DC8's features:

Diamond Cut's new Direct Spectral Editing mode allows you to directly manipulate your music files in the frequency domain. This works like a paintbrush on the sound. You can attenuate (erase) or amplify (highlight) selected areas of a file to eliminate things like coughs or squeaks without affecting the entire frequency range. For example, you could highlight just the 2000-3000Hz area of one word of a vocal performance to bring out the articulation of that word.

You can also use the DSE mode to interpolate selected frequency ranges or the entire spectrum using our new Frequency Domain Interpolation algorithm. This interpolation technique allows you to do much longer replacement than previously possible.

The Big Click filter automatically detects and repairs clicks lasting much longer than the standard click algorithm. Clicks lasting 100's of milliseconds can now be effectively found and repaired automatically. The big click filter uses our new spectral interpolation algorithm for a dramatically better repair than you ever thought possible.

The Overtone Synthesizer Filter generates an octave higher harmonics to add life to "dull" or limited bandwidth recordings. This effect is different and complementary to our VVA harmonic enhancer. See below for an example of what it can do:

The Sub Harmonic Synthesizer adds bass or sub-bass an octave below the exiting low frequencies. You can use it to add impact to almost any recording or to re-construct a lower octave that may have been missing in a restored original.

To see what can be done to an old cassette recording, listen to the following before and after recordings.
Paramount Organ and Piano Recital Before
Paramount Organ and Piano Recital After processing with the Overtone and Sub Harmonic Synths
DC8 Includes a DVD burner so you can burn CD's, DVD's or Blu-Ray disks to backup your work. The data burner works with ISO9660 or Joliet file systems and can burn Track-At-Once or Disk-At-Once modes with single or multi session disks.

Continuous Noise Filter with artifact suppression
The Continuous Noise filter is used for getting rid of constant background noise such as hiss and surface noise.
Our new technology reduces the aliasing and artifacting that sometimes affects the quality of the sound when you're pushing the Continuous Noise Filter to its limits. As you increase the power and amount of filtering on a tough file, in the past, you could generate new noise called artifacting. This machine-like ghosting was quite annoying and we'll be very happy to see it showing up much less in our restorations. Artifact suppression mode helps you push the Continuous Noise Filter harder without yielding these disturbing results!

The CNF filter also features an adaptive mode, This intelligent filter adapts itself to the changing nature of the noise in your file. As it gets smarter, your noise disappears.

You can now change the overall appearance of DC8 to suite your mood or visual preference. We have included the ability to use the Windows Skins to change the style of the various screen elements that make up visual style. We have included a base set of styles and you can add your own.

This is cool new feature that increases both the power of DC8 and the uses for the product. The Tune Library is a database view that now lets you store, audition, and catalog your entire collection...all within the familiar confines of DC8. You can build playlists, burn CDs, track every single audio file on your computer...without ever having to copy it to one folder! It supports MP3, WMA, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and your wave files all in the same environment and makes it easy to organize your entire portfolio of audio.

Best of all you can play all of your music through any of DC8's filters or effects without going into waveform editing mode. With DC8 you can now play, or shuffle playback all files thru the multifilter with a different preset for each tune.

Virtual Phono Preamp
(More Presets) This novel new approach to RIAA equalization offers more accuracy and better sound to any record type. The Virtual Phono Preamp works great in conjunction with our flat phono preamps and offers you the best possible approach and most accurate EQ ever developed for vinyl restoration. This powerful new approach also includes a 3-band EQ, gain adjustment, balance controls and a 30 Hz Rumble filter to make recording your files a breeze...no matter what setup you present to DC8.

The Multi-Filter with LIVE Feedthrough
You can select multiple different filters (up to 20) to apply to your audio in one filter pass. You can apply click and hiss removal to clean up your file and then, in that same session, add some reverb and equalization to enhance your final product. This is a great time saver because you can handle many tasks in one single pass through your audio.

You don’t need to necessarily have your audio recorded to the hard drive to take advantage of the numerous features of DC8. Live mode allows you to run dirty audio in the inputs of your sound card, set up your numerous filters on the screen and have cleaned audio flow out the output of your sound card in real time.

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