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[quote author=yorkie98 link=topic=5367.msg19061#msg19061 date=1484521138]
Hi,
Is it possible to restore the ability to inject an RDS signal (either digitally or from a live input source)? Although the optional inbuilt RDS coder is nice (at a price), it's not fully featured enough for some and certainly will not be sufficient for some of my client needs. Considering Airomate is/was only €15 and does so much more, the price for the BAO option seems a little high.Yorkie.
[/quote]Exactly, that's the only one reason that currently prevents me to migrate from BBP ASIO to BAO :-\
As you say KRK – I’ve done a studio monitor speaker comparision at University last summer. We also tested the RP5 G2, and for the money, they’re kicking ass!
For the german readers: I’ve attatched the evaluation PDF-document of my speaker comparison test to this post (in a rar-archive, because pdf’s are not allowed). Maybe it’s useful for somebody in here 8)
I use two of these (http://www.thomann.de/gb/ks_digital_c5_tiny_single.htm) in combination with this sub (http://www.nubert.de/index.php?action=p … category=1) in my main listening room. No EQ, just an active crossover (100 Hz) between sub and tops are in use – and I get a flat line measure on a RTA! And it sounds like magic – best money I’ve ever spend on audio equipment (besides Breakaway
)Thanks for the link. That company was new to me 🙂
But the demo doesn’t "change my mind". Seems that this box has even some more phase-nonlinearities than the 31-band-brand (the bass on the Jamiroquai-Track sounds completely boomy and phasy) and there are some noticeable pumping-artifacts. And using a denser setting on the own processor than on the "american made" for comparison is not really fair…
For BBP/BBP ASIO:
– an ITU-R 412 Multiplex-Power-Limiter like the AirAura has. Here in germany (and in many other countries in europe), we are not allowed to go over the magic 0 dBr-limit, but when I calibrate BBP to +-75 kHz deviation with 400 Hz sine and pick a "loud" preset, it always goes up to +4 dBr. So I have two options to fix this: 1) lower the Final Drive and Power, but then I’m not "loud" enough as desired or 2) lower the deviation to about +-40 kHz, which impairs the S/N-Ratio.
– set the outgoing audio-level seperate from the pilot and rds-level for the case that I only want to have minor audio-deviation but full 7,5 kHz pilot-deviation and full 3,5 kHz rds-deviation, e.g. to manually lower the multiplex-power.
– a loudness-compensated bypass, so that I can compare the original full dynamic input with the processed output at the same level of "sensed-loudness", like in many mastering-systems (e.g. WaveLab).
– mixed use of ASIO and non-ASIO. It would be great to use e.g. the Trace Alpha with stable ASIO as the main soundcard for input and MPX-out and the onboard-soundchip (non-ASIO) for control-output for headphones etc.
– a seventh "Treble"-Slider, which acts exactly like the Bass-Slider, but controls the treble 😉
– a feature to copy the preset-ajustments from e.g. BBP ASIO to BA-Live, to e.g. easily get the same tweaked sound from on-air to the livestream
(- a swichable integrated phase-desolator to get the sound of a processor I’ve already mentioned by the touch of a button ( 😀 just kiddin’))For BA-Live:
– the great, great Celeste-Preset!!!
– switchable 15 µs and 25 µs Preemphasis for the outputs
– also mixed-use of ASIO and non-ASIOSome cosmetic things:
– a mouse-pointer that dissappears after a few seconds when BBP is in fullscreen
– distabled tooltips when BBP is in fullscreen and/or the settings-window is open and is over the main-windowI’ve finally installed ver. 2.0.2. and it rocks without any problems for days now!
Livestream-Testing is now in Progress:
http://88.84.129.14:8000/status.xslBAL with Ref. Heavy and 15 µs Pre-Emphasis. Sounds absolutely awesome!
It runs on a strong machine which does the processing, streaming and On-Air-Recordings with LoopRecorder.If it works within the next days – Leif, you’re getting some money from us!
Shame on me, i’ve not used the forum-search.
It was the alpha-driver that was too new, i’ve downloaded and installed ver. 2.00, and now – it rocks!!!
Now, it’s time for stability test. I’ve connected a Rohde & Schwarz Exciter outputting 200 µW and let it run a few days. If it still works next week, I’ll make the purchase 😀
Interesting. I’ve done similar things with a Yaesu FT-897, a cheap T-Bone Condenser Mike and BBP. With "New York", you get a very nice DX-Signal – strong and loud. "News/Talk" also works very well. But – to be honest – the internal wideband-compressor of the Yaesu works nearly as well for this job as BBP, and you don’t need to run a computer everytime you want to be QRV.
Just IMHO 😀
73 and 55 – radiofreak
So, Breakaway is now running for a week with MPX-Out to the RME Fireface and then to an MPX-modified Rohde & Schwarz NU002. I’ve measured the MPX-output with an oszilloscope, and it’s absolutely tilt-free and has no high-frequency-cutoff! Airomate is also running with no probs and it’s stable.
But I have some problems with the Kernel-Streaming-System. The CPU-Workload is about 40 – 50 %, but sometimes it goes up to 100 % and the PC freezes for 5 … 10 seconds with a few audio-dropouts. When I use WaveOut, everything is fine… So can I leave it to WaveOut, or is KS better?
I’ve listened to my station a lot through many differend radios, from small clock-radios to big stereo systems, and everytime I was blown away!!! Leif, big compliments, you’ve nailed it!
