Help Index

Introduction

• What is Stereo Lab?
• Downloading the software
• Which processing filter do I use?
• Visit the Stereo Lab listening room

Operation

• Minimum system requirements
• Main screen
• Previewing converted files
• Preferences dialogues
• Licencing and upgrading
• Metadata & tag transparency
• How to record needle-drops
• The overload popup
• Loudness measurement (BS.1770-3)

Needle-drops

The new Needle-drop Handbook is a complete guide to making needle-drops and processing them with Stereo Lab.

The Needle-drop Handbook

Stereo Shuffling

• How Stereo works
• FRANCINSTIEN - technical account
• FS1 stereo enhancement
• Bride of FRANCINSTIEN
• FRANCINSTIEN for mic arrays
• Stereo Shuffling
• T-Sym - 3rd gen correction

Headphones

• Head Space - portable stereo
• ARIA 20 folddown

Surround Upmixing

• Stereo to 5.1 upconversion

Microphone Processors

• Binaural to Stereo (Blumlein δ)
• Crossed-cardioid enhancement

Quadraphonics

• SQ / QS Quadraphonic - 5.1 transcoding
• Cinema Surround
• JVC CD-4 decoding
• EV-4 / Dynaquad
• BBC Matrix H
• Ambisonic UHJ to 5.1

Compact Cassettes

• Compact Cassettes
• Cassette NR
• Beyond Dolby B

Digital Recovery

• Hi-Res Upscaling
• Unlimiting Sauce

Noise Reduction

• Cassette NR
• Hum filters
• Cat.22 (Dolby A) decoder
• Mach ONE (rumble)

Audio for Film

• Film audio filters
• Mono to stereo upconversion

CD & Tape Equalisations

• CD De-emphasis
• International tape EQ
• 8-Track cartridges

More

• Groove
• Mono to Stereo
• About Pspatial Audio
• Version release notes

Needle-drops (RIAA)

• Software phono EQ
• Rumble filtering
• Clicks & pops
• LP distortion
• Cartridge balance
• Inverse-RIAA
• Half-speed drops
• Cartridge choice
• PHLUX-II correction
• Quadraphonic records

Historic Equalisations

• Historic characteristics
• Acoustic recordings
• EQ Guide (PDF)
• 78 RPM
• Gradient reduction
• 78 RPM speed-changer
• Cylinders
• Cutting records

Needle-drops (General)

• Record stabiliser
• Standard speeds
• Flat phono preamps
• Recording needle-drops
• Best equipment
• LP performance
• New cartridge tech
• ³/₄ - speed needle-drops

Historical & Theoretical Background

• Stereo primer
• Application table
• FLAC
• Mic techniques
• Stereo Shuffling
• Ambisonics white paper
• Alan Blumlein
• FRANCINSTIEN variants
• Blumlein's patent
• EMI Stereosonic paper
• Head-shadow comp.
• Quad sample rates