Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Simple Truth - KTS 450/451 (1995)

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 9. June 2009, 9:09

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant / Simple Truth (Disc 1)

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RW GCA-4080N Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : Yes

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d


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2 | 1:57.22 | 6:23.68 | 8797 | 37589
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4 | 9:52.05 | 4:56.32 | 44405 | 66636
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11 | 46:40.27 | 4:25.60 | 210027 | 229961
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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 9. June 2009, 8:46

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant / Simple Truth (Disc 2)

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RW GCA-4080N Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : Yes

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d


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3 | 9:25.22 | 4:32.58 | 42397 | 62854
4 | 13:58.05 | 12:46.25 | 62855 | 120329
5 | 26:44.30 | 14:40.00 | 120330 | 186329
6 | 41:24.30 | 6:08.62 | 186330 | 213991
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How to [tisdu].
Do you have a boot with a really clean crisp sound that just hangs between your speakers - that is, great mono? But still great MONO. Try this.

Extract a sample track to your hard disk, open it with a sound program that lets you edit tracks. Insert five one hundredths of a second (5/100 = 0.05) of SILENCE [nada sound, nothing, zero amplitude] at the very start of the right channel only.

ONE CHANNEL ONLY. (I find the resulting sound is 'better' with silence inserted into the right channel. Try the left if you like.)

You will be splitting the delivery of the signals to the paired speakers by this minuscule amount.

Listen to the result, preferably by headphones, or even more conclusively, burnt to a disc for listening with your normal stereo player set-up. Let your ears be the judge.

If you decide to apply this to a whole disc, this is the ORIGINAL track by track method:

I cut the top and tail of each treated track across both channels - there will be 5/100ths of a second silence shunted onto the end of the left track by what you do at the start of the right.

These BOTH-channel trims are not heard nor missed in the ensuing DAO burn, except I've noticed that when there are drones, sweeping strings, or the singer successfully holding a note between tracks, occasionally you will pick up a small click where the [tisdu] 5/100ths of a second tail and then top cuts have been made.

The solution is to join the extracted tracks on your hard drive before [tisdu]ing them, [tisdu] them as one 'song', then track cue them again where they 'stop' and 'start'. Often the drone etc., is about making two songs one medley piece in concert anyway, but traders out there do like their track cues.

Which leads us to the RECOMMENDED whole disc [tisdu] method:

If you can extract an entire disc as one unbroken 'track', you need only [tisdu] the whole thing - one bit of silence at the start introduced into the right channel is usually in the fade-up section, and thus doesn't require cutting out; and the resulting bit of silence at the end in the left channel is usually 'in' the fade-out, and thus also goes unnoticed.

Then, however you normally set track cues for establishing individual songs prior to burning a disc, the [tisdu] effect will be present in EACH song because it was universally applied to ALL songs.

How to actually step by step do this and the programs that work best in the Windows environment is described in the Files section of the [tisdu] Group at Yahoo Groups,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tisdu


Now, after all of the above, a proviso or two.

[tisdu] is not so much a fake stereo as a speakers-wide, space-between-them-filling, 'thick' mono.

On headphones you CAN clearly hear different sounds from different channels (just like stereo), but this is an 'accidental' effect of the slight delay of the same sound reaching different speakers.

Headphones off, in your loungeroom, on your crank-it-up stereo, [tisdu] is more about recreating big concert hall ambience than it is about assigning particular instruments to different tracks and thus specific speakers as a producer in the studio would do.

Living in Australia, and unable to resist silly plays on words, [tisdu] is short for -

Teased into 'stereo' Down Under.

Sorry 'bout that. It sounds better than the name it answers to!

Second proviso: [tisdu] is not a cleaning-up process. If I am capable of fixing drop-outs, removing clicks or otherwise banishing digital flaws, then during the [tisdu] process I will do my best to get rid of them.

Well-known cuts in tape sources, drop-outs, patched together versions, things known all too well to boot collectors, [tisdu] simply faithfully replicates.


Programs that will [tisdu] -

Amadeus 11 in Macintosh
Audacity (versions available for all platforms, downloadable free, from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)


[tisdu] Tips:

In the sincere hope that traders are having a little play with applying [tisdu] to some of your sets, so we can all build up the database of [tisdu] sets around, I'd like to offer up a couple of observations and tips to help 'improve' your results.

1) Pump Up the Volume:

I find [tisdu] works 'best' with some grunt in the signal, so if the originating source is soft, it doesn't hurt to increase the amplitude (that is, the 'volume' of the signal - but make sure you keep it well short of peaking too high in the louder bits to avoid making new click sounds) before [tisdu]ing.

2) 'Balance' How You Hear the Volume

The other thing [tisdu] does with the silence introduced to the right channel is give the left channel more apparent volume.

Someone else described this as a "slant" to the left channel.

My usual 'solution' is to decrease the amplitude in the left channel to 80% of the right before burning the disc.

Then, when played back on your stereo, the 'slant', or apparent volume edge in the left channel is compensated by the actual volume edge in the right channel, and to the ear, they are equal.

It's just a wrinkle in the [tisdu] process, and it basically comes down to you trying out the channels' comparative volumes by burning a couple of variations - left channel 90%, 80%; or go the other way, right channel 120%, 130% - to a Rewrite CD, and actually listening on your stereo system to make your call on what's working best to apply to the set you are working on.

3) How to un[tisdu] - in the absence of an original source of the music.

If you don't have the original, and you don't want to wait for a trade to unfold to get it, the following procedure is a quick and dirty rendering for an as-near-as-damn-but-not-quite 'exact' sample of what the music sounded like pre[tisdu].

Realign the tracks as extracted to your hard drive by placing 5/100ths of a second silence at the start of the left channel. Amplify the left channel by 130% to rebalance volume output per channel.

Alternatively, copy the entire right channel and paste it into the left channel, thereby replacing the signal already there, and you'll be back to where the original mono boot was.

You can also create a temporarily un[tisdu]'d disc for the following use -

4) Editing a Flawed [tisdu] Set.

If you want to remove sound flaws from a [tisdu] set, I have found they edit more 'cleanly' in a temporary non-[tisdu] state, because sound flaws are usually consistent across both channels originally, not 5/100ths of a second apart across both channels as they are after [tisdu].

Extract the music to your hard drive as stereo, realign the tracks as described above to un[tisdu], do your edits on the now aligned left and right channels, and then, re[tisdu].