[Regor]

I have NO idea if anyone makes such a thing, and my Google skillz apparently suck cuz I can't find a damn thing about it.

Does anyone out there make an audio compressor unit that uses Optical Cable ins/outs? I'd DIE to put on in my home theater system so even out the audio between channels even more than what my satellite system does. It works ok, but it could be so much better.

 

[darren]

I've never heard of an outboard compressor with optical/digital ins/outs.

 

[eleven59]

Can't work, the optical/digital signals being sent are encoded, so it would have to decode the Dolby Digital/DTS stream, compress the audio, then re-encode to Dolby Digital/DTS.

Incidentally, this is kind of what Dolby Volume does, which is a new feature on a lot of TVs/recievers.

 

[Professor Squidbeard]

the axefx has a digital out, dunno about an in though.

 

[Regor]

That sucks

 

[Vince]

I have NO idea if anyone makes such a thing, and my Google skillz apparently suck cuz I can't find a damn thing about it.

Does anyone out there make an audio compressor unit that uses Optical Cable ins/outs? I'd DIE to put on in my home theater system so even out the audio between channels even more than what my satellite system does. It works ok, but it could be so much better.

by "even out" do you mean treble 10, gain 10, presence 10 bass 10, mids -infinity?

because if you do.... awesome \m/

 

[The Dark Wolf]

Vince has never seen a dead horse he doesn't like to beat.

:lol:

 

[The Dark Wolf]

Still fuckin' funny, tho. :lol:

 

[zepp]

Vince is the winner!

 

[Regor]

by "even out" do you mean treble 10, gain 10, presence 10 bass 10, mids -infinity?

because if you do.... awesome \m/

Clearly you don't know the difference between a compressor and an equalizer :fawk:

Now, this brings up a good point.... anyone know of an equalizer that works on Optical cables? :lol:

 

[Leon]

Optical equalizer? Eric will like this:

Astronomical filter curves

 

[105]

Yes they're made, you just need a piece of pro audio gear with lightpipe ins and outs:

Weiss :: DS1 (you'll need an AES/EBU to Lightpipe converter for this one)

Finalizer Express

 

[Regor]

Hmm... 8K for the Weiss is way to expensive... and frankly so is 1k for the TC :lol:

 

[96]

:yesway:

 

[105]

Hmm... 8K for the Weiss is way to expensive... and frankly so is 1k for the TC :lol:

Weiss also makes an EQ. Though it's 8k or so too!

For a while DBX made a digital compressor that I think had optical ins and outs, but I'm not sure. They're not made anymore, but you can find them on the eBay.

 

[eelblack2]

Hmm... 8K for the Weiss is way to expensive... and frankly so is 1k for the TC :lol:

TC Electronic Finalizer Express - eBay (item 270581960450 end time May-23-10 12:21:25 PDT)

Here you go cheap-azz. These things have a horrible resale value so you can find them on Ebay quite a bit, for not a lot of cheddar.

 

[eleven59]

None of which will work for Dolby Digital/DTS/any kind of surround sound

 

[BigM555]

It might not be real cheap either but I would think you could also build yourself a PC that would do this. You'd need a decent PC, an audio card that had optical in/out and surround processing capabilities and then some software that was capable of processing on the fly. It would likely be messy as hell and would be a whole lot of work. As some one already mentioned you might be screwed by the digital encoding as well. I can't say I've ever tried to decode an incoming DTS/Dolby surround signal.

In any case. If you find something. Don't tell my wife. I'd have to buy one. She's a notorious "volume rider". Drives me nucking futz! :lol:

 

[eleven59]

Not to mention, it would throw off the audio/video sync.