Milky

Obviously, using another device to give you some more control over the levels (a bit like using a mixer channel or Distribution Amplifier). Many radio stations have a DA rack in the control room to tweak all of the sources to a similar level. However, it intoduces yet another source of noise, distortion and breakdown failure risk.

Just to eliminate the Behringer, can you route BAE to your internal sound or some other device?

What happens if you ignore the Wizard’s settings and play around with the buffer settings manually? Usually, a buffer size in multiples of the sample rate works best (as in your 882), but sometimes, if the sound card has unusual frame geometry, a different buffer size works better. Start at 441 and run the test for each setting after that.

I am of the vintage that listens predominantly to the music you are playing. I do listen to SOME “modern” music, but much more ove the pre-Y2K period. These were times before a lot of compression and other processing, so you really don’t want anything too heavy.

My marketplace is not in a situation where I have to out-shout other stations much, so I can concentrate on good, clean, open sound without having to crash through other louder sources.

Personally, I like to start with the “Refernce Settings” preset and tweak the minor settings through the “enhance” option. This will level all the quieter 60s, 70s tracks with the louder 80s to noughties, without any over-driving.
If you want something a little more aggressive, try French Kiss or Quintessence.

BAE is the “Little Brother: of BA1. It was written in 32 bit architechture when Windows XP was king, so is currently in re-development to port it to 64 bit and with more options. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a release date.

Breakaway One shares a lot of code with the very successful Omnia range of broadcast controllers. It also has many, many features which are broadcast-specific, so it really is a giant sledge hammer to crack a tiny nut if you are using it for home music listening. However, it has the benefit of much more recent code, 64 bit processing, a range of available presets etc, so, if you can afford at least an HD core, streaming module if that’s what you do and I would suggest the Manaagement Package for convenience in controlling it, then go right ahead an get the Big Brother version.

There are many, many options you may never need. For instance, you could have a copy of BA1 at the studio end controlling output from the studios, and then send it to another copy of BA1 at the transmitter site for final broadcast, complete with alternate fail-over options if a link, or links goes down. Noe of this is available in BAE.

I don’t suppose it’s a Windows sound setup issue? I recall a certain brand of soundcard had a “what you hear” option which, when turned on in Control Panel, produced an output from whatever sound scource was selected. If you are using the Pipeline, you don’t need this.

Thanks for the feedback. It may help someone else with similar issues.

To be honest, I’ve never agonised over the pipeline settings. It is just used as a convenient way of trapping the soundcard output if your playout software does not have an inbuilt option that you can select. By default, it is DVD quality, so shouldn’t need any alteration.

Typically, if your playout software has an input level adjustment, I would run it 3 to 5 dB down, to give BAE AGC some headroom to work. If the input is too hot, BAE will be constantly clamping it back down and it will lose a lot of its dynamics.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Milky.

I am totally at a loss over this. I have relayed on all the information that you sent to me. I’ll contact John again to see where it is at, but it is now the weekend, so I may not get a response until Monday.