DSP Centercut

Audiophiles and users who use Winamp as their main audio player, could sometimes require a tool for separating the individual channels of stereo audio signal. DSP Centercut is a Winamp plug-in that was developed in order to help users disseminate the stereo audio signal into side and center channels.

Deployed through a ZIP archive, the plug-in can be set-up by copying its corresponding DLL into Winamp’s plug-ins folder. After restarting their player, users will then be able to access the plug-in by navigating to the DSP/Effect plug-in tab of the Plug-ins menu.

The plug-in will offer users several predefined modules to choose from: Center Cut – Sides (will remove the center channel), Center Cut – Center (will maintain only the center channel), Center Cut – Sides (Bass to Sides) (will remove the center channel without altering the bass) and Center Cut – Center (Bass to Sides) (will maintain only the center channel without altering the bass).

In addition to the four aforementioned modes, users will also benefit from a fifth extra one, which will allow them to compute the difference between the left and right channels ((L-R)/2). This last module works by employing a FFT phase analysis that, according to the developer, will induce some warbling in the output audio files. Nevertheless, the stereo separation will be successfully preserved.

Featuring an improved package that will avoid Winamp’s threading issues,  DSP Centercut also features an enhancement algorithm that will ensure a better quality for the output audio signal.