In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Arny Krueger
wrote:
Compared to modern GUI tools, SOX's command line UI is pretty daunting
from an ease-of-use standpoint. Tools like Cooledit have been
publicly released and widely used for about 17 years.. If open source
floats your boat, Audacity would seem to be a massive step forward
from SOX, especially if you add one of the zillions of plug-in
equalizers.

Think the problem is Jim won't use anything that doesn't run on linux.

Well I think the 'problem' is misunderstanding what I have in mind. :-)

FWIW I think programs like Audacity work OK on Linux. And I think I have
experimented with it in the past. However my interest is in being able
initially to experiment, but then to have the ability to 'batch process'
files when needed with presets I have chosen. For both tasks sox works as
suits me. I guess I'm old fashioned in simply liking command line tools I
can write my own 'drag and drop' wrapper for. Hence get what I want rather
than what a GUI designer wants to impose on me.

But the start question was to see if others thought there was anything like
an 'EMI sound' *for the CDs they have released* in terms of the spectral
balance being different to the original LP releases. If there isn't, then
not much point in my proceeding. Just that I do often have the impression
that there is a fairly common sound difference for the recordings of the
era I have in mind.

Slainte,

Jim

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