CD's Recorded With Pre-emphasis - Anything MB Can Do With This?

[Thalion Korvhas]

I have a CD recorded with pre-emphasis. It is the only one so far I have found in my collection. It really hurts my ears to listen to it. Is there any plugin or option I can use in MB to de-emphasize the CD? Or is there some freeware that I can use to rip the CD with de-emphasis?

I have the original CD & flac rips. The bad thing is I no longer have a dvd burner in my computer, because I needed the spot on my motherboard for a hard drive.

Edit 1:

I do not intend to plug other players vs MB, but I found out that foobar has a dsp component that allows you to de-emphasize almost any format. You have to write a custom tag for the dsp to recognize the track to apply the effect. https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=99394.0.

It seems to work. If I then use foobar to convert the track with the flag, I can remove the flag and it sounds as if it has been permanently de-emphasized. But my CD sounds a bit high pitched still. I have nothing to compare the cd with but itself. I do not have a working CD player to compare the de-emphsized .flac file with the live cd.

Edit 2:

I think it works. I had to go to YouTube and compare a remastered version with my de-emphasized version. The pre-emphasis should not be on the remastered versions. My de-emphasized converted file sounds like the YouTube remaster for my needs. I think the album just had a crappy mastering to start with. It was recorded in 1985 and was a bit *thin*. But the de-emphsized vs the pre-emphasized versions are night and day difference.

Edit #3

With the plugins above, permenant de-emphasis is only possible with lossless formats. The reason is the plugin that works for lossless formats is pre-process where the dps plugins are post-process effects. I think I got that right.


I still want to see this happen in MB if possible.