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[quote author=”yorkie98″]I’m not sure (maybe someone can help here) if the Tilt calibration is required for AM, I’m kinda guessing not but I could well be wrong here, CMIIW people..
Yorkie.[/quote]Aside from what adjustments you might need to fix tilt issues in your chosen soundcard, It is possible that further adjustments will be required to get maximum modulation from your transmitter. Newer models are much better in this area. However, the adjustments will allow you to easily tune up even ’60s vintage tube tranmitters.
Once you’ve installed Breakaway into your audio chain, you’ll have to scope the transmitter to determine what adjustments, if any, will be required.
Not really. Used to see Scooter Chapman from time to time, but it’s been awhile. Now busy with some radio projects in Shelton. Keep in touch though, if there’s anything I can help you with… even brainstorming.
Jack
No, I’m near the Bremerton (WA) National Airport. I never actually worked for KAPY, though they were going strong when I got my first radio job at KONP. I was in high school back then (early ’70s), and a couple of the employees are still there.
Charles has since passed away. He was a well known and respected news person, having spent a number of years in Seattle TV before buying KAPY.
Congratulations on your CP for KAPY… and also for bringing a classic call sign back to Port Angeles.
I was able to tour the original KAPY, back when Charles Herring owned it. It was a very nice facility, located next to the golf course… a log building, if I recall right.
Hope to hear your new signal soon!
I can say without qualification that I agree with JesseG’s observations 1,000%. Having been in & around broadcast engineering since the early ’70s, I’ve never run across a processing scheme that sounds like Leif’s. That it’s available in software for the price he charges is astounding. In my shop, business and travels I have owned and worked with processors by Omnia, Orban, Vorsis, Broadcast Warehouse, CRL, Gregg Labs, the Sonos/MBL software and a few that go back before FM processing was much more complex than a wideband AM box. If I had run into Leif’s processing a few years ago I could have saved myself a LOT of money, looking for something that didn’t tear off my ears.
That said, I hope we don’t all find out that the gravy train is over, once Leif releases his concepts in the hardware configuration he’s been talking about. Something like that could easily command prices that I couldn’t possibly justify, given what I use processing for.
So, in the hope that he doesn’t just get tired of us all, I’ll say that Leif has a teriffic product. It’s WELL worth the price. I’d pay more, but
I hope he sees fit to leave it as it is.Those of you who crack & steal this stuff… would you please leave your doors open so I can stop by & raid your refrigerator? While you’re at it, please leave the keys in your car. I’d like to borrow it, and I’d much prefer to just use the gas you’ve left in the tank. Thanks! 🙄
On the rebooting issue, I can add a bit.
We’ve had BBP running for nearly 3 months on a Pentium dual-core computer. At this point it shows no signs of stopping.
On the other hand, I put BBP Live on a streaming computer… a Pentium 4 (dual proc) which had been running MBL4 for months. This computer did not like BBP, and would shut down at random times. We went back to MBL4 on that unit & it returned to reliable operation.
The point being that computer selection is something you’ll need to look into, depending on what you have operating now. Get the right hardware & BBP should run very reliably.
Recommended computers, cards and configurations are all over these forums.
Good luck!
The Broadcast Warehouse "DSP" series of FM processors have a variable MPX clipping function in them. Over about .5 db & you can make the box sound HORRIBLE! But… if loudness is all you’re after, there’s another option for you.
Guess this is as good an example as any how subjective processing can be. To my ears, the bass is overdriven, noticeably shoving the AGC down. It sounds to me like the final drive is cranked way up, because the highs are clipped to point of being painful to listen to (at least for me).
No offense, but if you were broadcasting this I’d have a hard time listening for more than a few minutes.
I suppose I’d also like more buttons to play with. Experience with CRL and Orban boxes made me feel like the builders thought they knew better than we did how to make a station sound. In the case of BBP however, I’ve never heard a processor sound this good out of the box, and there are plenty of ways to color it up a bit, short of having a knob for everything (which Leif sez is coming in the hardware version… very dangerous for some of us!
).[quote author=”bofh”]G’day Adam,
Have you tried the New York preset with the Speed backed down?
Matt[/quote]
That would have been my first guess, too. You said you have to force the background way down when talking over it. That would seem to indicate that you must have everything (range, power & speed) way over the mid-points that the presets all come with. If the processing pulls the backgrounds up so fast that it drowns your vocals, you must have something set pretty fast.
If you want to even out the processing with the music, maybe less mic processing would give BA something to work with… especially with aggressive settings.
Leif,
What is your feeling regarding use of BBP ASIO on a transmitter with internal stereo coder? Does the lower buffer allowance gain anything noticeable in terms of latency? Are we losing anything by using the transmitter’s coder instead of doing the whole job within BBP?
I can do this either way… just wondered what your observations are.
Thanks.
JackI’ve always been slightly bothered by those who feel they need such specific warnings for everything…. kind of reminds me of the stack of "liability labels" you see on common step ladders these days. Sometime during my last annual inspection, someone put a decal on my plane… "Warning… This aircraft to be operated only by qualified personnel"… Duh! 🙄
Still, if anyone really needs to be reminded that an unpaid version of Leif’s products come with periodic "buy me" suggestions, I’d say a simple notice in the download area should be sufficient.
Being a broadcast engineer with frequent reminders of what hardware processors cost, I’m amazed that anyone would quibble over the extremely reasonable prices of Breakaway products.
