Bedini Audio Spectral Enhancer
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The Bedini Audio Spectral Enhancer (B.A.S.E. or BASE) is an audio signal processor invented by John Bedini. B.A.S.E. was used in the early 1990s during the mastering process in order to enhance sterephonic effects of several popular music recordings, such as the U.S. release of the first album by Orbital.
[edit] Murky technical details
According to Bedini's company's marketing literature, B.A.S.E.-enhanced stereo sound is played through a pair of loudspeakers, its principal effect is to fool the brain into perceiving only the right-channel sound in the right ear, and the left-channel sound in the left ear, even though both ears are receiving sound from both channels.
Seemingly contradicting this claim, the following information was provided by John Bedini in his comments about the streaming audio station he created on December 30, 2004:
- The B.A.S.E. processor analyzes and separates a stereo signal into a stereo and mono path. The mono information can be moved forward, backward, side to side or anywhere within 360 degrees without loss of stereo ambient space. The stereo space can be increased or decreased while the mono signal is set anywhere desired. The results is an enhanced signal that goes beyond stereo, while enabling the user to be in complete control of all spacial aspects. When B.A.S.E. is applied in the mixing or mastering process the effect can be quite amazing, it is the only process that can create a Holographic Audio Image in open air. Processing of any live stream of music can be encoded with B.A.S.E. on both the outermost left/right channels, as well as the stereo-surround channels, to create a seamless, 360-degree spacial environment. [1]
No reliable, independent verification of any of these claims has been made, although on the commercial sound recordings on which it has been used, the device does produce a distinct effect similar to that of the Q-Sound technology.
