I've been using the following parameters for Voladj for a while now:

[hijack]
voladjlow=0x1500,400,0x1000,200,1100
voladjmed=0x1700,600,0x1000,200,600
voladjhigh=0x2200,1000,0x1000,100,500

I think I like them. Mark once commented that he was looking for a more refined set of default parameters to include in Hijack. Has anyone messed with these and do they like them better than the current defaults?

My goal with these was to improve upon the original defaults in the following ways:

- Have the Low and Medium settings tend to "pump" less. Pumping is a natural side effect of compression and can't be completely avoided, but you can reduce how obvious it is when it happens.

- Reduce the number of times that the player amplifies end-of-song-fadout tape hiss up to an annoying level.

- Limit the amplification so that the quietest parts (such as the heartbeat at the beginning of DSOTM) are not amplified unnaturally loud, but so that overall compresison and even-ing of the sound is still good for material in the normal range.

- Make all three settings useful (the original default for "high" was overkill and I never used it).

- Make all three settings be markedly different from each other and be more applicable to the appropriate situations: Low for "by yourself" driving with the music up kind of loud, Medium for when you're with the family in the car and want to hear all the music but it can't be turned up as loud, and high for when there's a lot of ambient noise yet the music has to be kept turned down to quiet levels.

Anyone else play with these? Mark, what do you think of them?

Tony, how about a link to the FAQ entry on entering these (just to save the likely question)?

These look great and I'll test them out today. The High did have way too much pumping (was like an on/off switch!).

Thanks for working on this!

If Mark puts them in as defaults, then no FAQ entry will be needed.

Let's hope he comes down from the mountain soon!

I am -not- going to make a pun involving his last name and the "coming down from the mountain" thing. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

Too late! You just passively did! :P

(Personally, I was thinking of the line "Comin' down the mountain....!" from Jane's Addiction's "Mountain Song".)

Alright already!

No mountain of rocks this time, just a mountain of work! And lots of it, for a nice change. But I'll put out a new hijack version today with Tony's VolAdj defaults, and anything else I find after digging around the BBS.

Cheers