Fave Winamp Plugins!

[Xenodius]

A thread for everyone to share their favorite winamp plugins! Please include a link if possible.


My favorite winamp plugin...

WVS (Winamp Visual System) for Logitech G15 Keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tAoyoduhc

Quite useful as a controller for winamp-- but it works far better with the old G15 keyboard, as that version has a volume wheel instead of buttons, (and a larger LCD) making navigation much easier. Unfortunately, Logicrap discontinued it.

I would also mention Kjaerhus classic EQ, but I cant get it to work with Vista... :-(

Kjaerhus EQ has all sorts of cool features, well worth reading on if you run XP, methinks =D

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[dfkt]

The Kjaerhus EQ is a VST plugin, you need a VST wrapper for Winamp to get it working. Don't know if that helps with Vista, though.

Besides the VST bridge, my favorite Winamp plugin always was Tag&Cover, but I don't need it anymore with Winamp 5.5+.

Kernel streaming or ASIO output is also great, if your soundcard supports these standards (that are superior to WDM/DirectSound). I wish I could use PureWave output from Winamp to my Echo sound cards, but that just doesn't work.

[Xenodius]

Hey, thanks for the info! Turns out that VST wrapper doesn't work with vista, (fails to install dsp_vst.dll, tried several versions and multiple downloads) but I tried installing it on my WinXP virtual computer and copied all the additional files over, and it appears to work like a charm! Thanks man =D

I am gonna have to play around with that when my HFI-780's arrive...

[yuki]

Originally Posted by dfkt

The Kjaerhus EQ is a VST plugin, you need a VST wrapper for Winamp to get it working. Don't know if that helps with Vista, though.

Besides the VST bridge, my favorite Winamp plugin always was Tag&Cover, but I don't need it anymore with Winamp 5.5+.

Kernel streaming or ASIO output is also great, if your soundcard supports these standards (that are superior to WDM/DirectSound). I wish I could use PureWave output from Winamp to my Echo sound cards, but that just doesn't work.

Just FYI Kernel streaming works on just about any m-audio usb device with very nice performance ^^ since vista really colors the audio with some bull crap features on m-audio hardware even though it has a disable it doesn't help unless via kernal audio, which by passes things like the oversampling crap and the room correction and virtual crap... the volume control is a bit buggy

[dfkt]

I found another awesome free VST plugin that works with Winamp: HDPHX - Headphone Listening Enhancement for VST. It might be the best crossfeed I heard to date, seriously. No wonder, coming from guys that make some of the best (and priciest) software EQs available.

We use our HDPHX plugin routinely when mixing with headphones. It takes advantage of the Haas Effect to provide a delayed and attenuated cross-channel mix in each ear to present the sound that would be heard with a stereo speaker system with speakers placed at +/-30 degrees azimuth from front-center.

The plug-in has no user interface. It simply plugs into your stereo audio output channel, and provides the same high-quality 64-bit computing that our other plug-ins feature.

When listening with HDPHX you will no longer get that ear-pounding, head-shaking, strong stereo separation that is so common. Modern recordings are intended mostly for speaker listening. But when listening through stereo headphones you don't normally get the kind of lef-right cross mixing that happens in a room with speaker playback.

Our HDPHX preserves the good stereo separation without producing the fatigue that accompanies long listening sessions with artificially high stereo separation.

Try it out for yourself and see if you agree. It's free, so go ahead and download today.

[ZenChick]

Nice! Now, if something like that could become available for the Linux environment, that would be outstanding!