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I like (and use) Reference Settings as well, but with a little more “Power” and “Bass Boost” but again, it depends on the material.
I’ve never edited the preset files, but, apparently, they are textual and will open in Notepad. One of our members, “MrKlorox” has made reference to making changes. Perhaps he will reach out and offer some guidance.
I’m personally not a fan of stereo enhancer, but it depends on your material. A lot of the earlier pop music (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison) used very polarised stereo, with all the vocals in one channel and all the instruments in the other. Listen to Roy Orbison’s “I’m Falling” and, if you turn the balance fader all to one channel, you won’t her him singing at all!
In cases like this, less is more.Similarly, if listening to your station on a car stereo, the driver is already left or right of centre, so boosting the already loud side may make it sound very lop-sided.
Have you watched the video Leif produced? It goes through all aspects of setting up an FM station, including a low-latency core.
Have you purchased a licence for that option? If you check their store, there is a US$49 fee for the additional functionality.
I don’t think I have ever seen 3 buffers come up in the wizard – always 4 for both in and out. I actually wondered why there was an option to change down from 4.
I’ve done some more research on this on the VAC website. In one section, it says that low numbers should be avoided, but elsewhere it says “The more is event frequency, the shorter is event period, the less is block size, the smoother is stream transfer, and the less is latency. But decreasing interrupt/event period causes increase of system timer resolution and timer interrupt frequency so system overhead is increased too. VAC driver sets system timer resolution to a half of the “MS per int” parameter specified.
Large (more than 10-15 ms) values may significantly disrupt stream uniformity and even cause stream breaking.”
I guess if you have a “grunty” PC, low (1 to 5) will work OK, but throw a greater load on the OS. Higher (10-15) may reduce the OS load, but could let too many other events get in the way of a smooth stream.
Glad to hear that you have made some progress. WHat happens if you just run the BAE wizard now and let it figure out the best buffer size? Sometimes, you can get too hung up on trying to manually tweak the parameters. So long as you can’t hear any artefacts like crackling in the background, a bit of jitter is normal. If you go overboard with large buffers, you will have problems with lip-synching with your karaoke videos because BAE will fill the buffers before doing any processing.
My son and I both have identical laptops, yet his settings are slightly different from mine. I assume its a firmware or chip revision thing, but I’ve never really looked into it.
As with any preset, its effectiveness works better with certain genres. For instance, a station playing only classical or country music would respond better to some presets over others.
What type of music do you mostly play?
Sometimes, to uninstall the Pipeline, you need to go into Device Manager and remove the actual Pipeline (after you have run the regular uninstall). It seems to have a service which needs to be unloaded manually.
I didn’t really provide much of an answer. As an electronics engineer, I used to live with the small delays that analogue equipment imposed on the broadcast queue from desk > STL transmitter > STL receiver > final transmitter. We used to listen back from the desk via headphones connected to an AM/FM receiver, just to prove that we were ACTUALLY on-air (I have a funny story about this, if you are interested).
Now that the audio from the source (like the presenter’s mic) goes through microphone processors, Orbans, Optimods, Breakaway or some sort of after-procsesing, the “what you hear in the studio) is bound to be delayed.
I doubt that it is EVER possible to get 0 delay when the audio has to be processed through ASIO plus Breakaway, plus any overheads introduced in the MPX process. If your STL distance is significant (like 5 kilometres), there will be a noticable delay if you listen off-desk compared to off-air.
They are truly amazing (ly bad) numbers, especially for the Realtek, which is a very common chip in thousands of computer boards. I get 11% for the Pipeline and 5% for the Realtek output, both using DS.
As a last reort, have you tried uninstalling – re-installing Breakaway and all of its components?
