Paul

Since we already have Celeste, how about Nebula? An interstellar cloud of dust where stars are born. Looks pretty from far but is quite turbulent inside. I believe this description fits this preset very well.

Hi Leif,

Thank you very much for your reply.
The reason why I would like to limit the sound of the stream to the level of the station in question is that it sounds very nice on the iphone while streaming on the 3G network.
For some reason the Quicktime player in the iphone when streaming internet audio likes to add extra highs into the audio. The station that I used as an example seems to be the only one that sounds decent on both a home/office computer set up and the iphone.

With that said I have been playing around with Breakaway over the past week. I took your advice and with the help of a few other threads i found on this message boards geared towards tweaking the pre-set setting I have managed to find a sound that I am quite satisfied with.

Here are my current settings on the test stream:

Preset: Plutonium
Final Drive: 0.3
Range: 50
Power: 50
Speed: 50
Bass Shape: +25 (tried giving it a little more warmness)
Pass Boost: +3

Pre-Emphasis/De-emphasis: 15us
Hpf: 30Hz
Bandwidth: 15.0 khz
L/R Ref level -1.50dB
L/R PEQ Gain: -6.50dB
L/R PEQ Freq: 16.00khz
L/R PEQ Width: 1.00 oct

(I had to drop the PEQ like this otherways the high were too crisp even on my home system)

DSP_attenuator_6dB
Bass-EFX level: 2
Impact/Clunk: Clunk: 2 Slam: 2

and this is what it sounds like: http://djfm.ca:8000/djfm

a little about my set-up:

The sound from the Radio Automation program is being fed via M-Audio Audiophile soundcard (analog) to a Yamaha Promix 01 board. There is no processing being done on the Yamaha board and the EQ is left flat.
From there it gets sent via Analog Balanced outbuts to the input of another M-Audio Audiophile sound card which is attached to an old P4 3.00GHZ Laptop with 384MB of RAM running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2.

This is where the Breakaway sits. I am forced to run it in the CPU friendly mode because the laptop is just not powerful enough to support Full Quality mode. The sound starts cutting out.

The processed sound then gets sent to the encoder/logger computer via S/PDIF, yup you guessed it another AudioPhile M-Audio card.

Now the sound is not 100% what I have in mind but it pretty damn close. If you have any suggestions as to making it a little better please fire them at me. I am willing to put this baby to the test. So far I am really impressed with the product.