"Vinyl warmth is a stack of measurable physical effects (RIAA curve, bandwidth limits, second-order distortion, wow and flutter) plus a documented expectation effect from a 2022 Frontiers in Psychology study.
https://tonalux.org/blog/why-vinyl-sounds-warmer-actual-science
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How modern HRTF convolution algorithms enable real-time binaural rendering in DAW plugins, from overlap-save implementation to barycentric interpolation.
https://tonalux.org/blog/hrtf-binaural-rendering-2026-spatial-audio
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This week's standout releases include Universal Audio's first D-style amp emulation modeling the circuit that sells for six figures on the used market, a dual spectral-plus-granular glitch tool with a morphing XY pad, a free...
https://tonalux.org/blog/weekly-plugin-roundup-may-4-2026
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A track panned to center is quieter in some DAWs than in others, by up to 3 dB, even with identical fader values. The reason isn't a bug.
https://tonalux.org/blog/equal-power-pan-laws-explained
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The lush shimmer of analog chorus and the jet-plane sweep of flanger both trace to a 1969 circuit from Philips Research Labs.
https://tonalux.org/blog/bucket-brigade-delay-bbd-chorus-flanger
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A Leslie cabinet doesn't produce one effect, it produces three and the upper horn and lower drum spin at different speeds on purpose. Here's the physics, the math and how plugins reproduce it.
https://tonalux.org/blog/leslie-speaker-doppler-rotary-simulation
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The channel vocoder was designed to compress and encrypt military speech during World War II, not make music.
https://tonalux.org/blog/channel-vocoder-architecture-explained
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In 1983, Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong published a plucked-string synthesis algorithm that fits in fifteen lines of C. The reason it sounds like a guitar took four more years to fully explain.
https://tonalux.org/blog/karplus-strong-string-synthesis
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In this episode you’ll learn
• How luxury car audio systems evolved
• Why automobiles are difficult acoustic environments
• The role of DSP and spatial audio in modern vehicles
• How audio companies collaborate with car manufacturers
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