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I’ve been using Leif’s products since the Audiostocker and Octimax days (I still use both for certain tasks) and have several paid licenses of Breakaway. Why do I like them? Simple user design and input with high quality output. The competition that I’ve tested, for me, isn’t close in terms of simplicity of use with professional results. This has always been the philosophy of this company. Easily give the user high end audio processing.
I do audio production (mixing/mastering) and have spent quite a bit of money on plugins. I want tools that are easy to use and understand with top notch output. Many of these plugin companies charge for software version upgrades, it’s common practice. I pay it because I like their product and want to support the developers for future improvements.
These plugin software companies need to generate revenue to remain active and to improve products. Leif’s company is no different. A business will not survive if they continually give away labor and product improvements at no cost. I’ve been running Breakaway since it’s inception (almost 20ish years?) and have substituted computers maybe 4 times. At $15 per license change request, this would have cost me $3 per year on average. I view Breakaway as a fabulous return on investment. In addition, I’ve found the Breakaway customer support to be excellent, which I cannot say for some software companies I’ve had to contact.
Folks, Breakaway is a fantastic product reasonably priced, and I’m more than happy with it’s current state. Any free future changes, to me, is a bonus. My opinion, $15 per license change is a fair ask of it’s users. A question to ponder, would you be willing to give away your labor for free indefinitely? Probably not, most of us prefer to get paid for our time and effort.
Windows permissions was the issue, should have thought of that!
Thumbs up for the quick reply and solution, thank you sir.
I had that problem on an older computer, it was a latency issue. Check it with this tool:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
Doesn't look like it's accurate with Windows 8 though.
Hey Jesse, read that post you had about the waves plug-ins, nice. I loaded up a chain, does make for some solid, clean bass response.
[quote author=”JesseG”]new R128Gain, basically replay gain but using the new international industry standard in loudness measurement
http://www.ceaudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2634
i’ll check out your station tomorrow 🙂 cheers & always welcomed[/quote]
Haven’t messed much with replay gain, might have to download this and play around with it a little. Always open to learning new things when it comes to music 😉
Ok, learned some things by reading the forum posts (a lot). So much great information from Leif, Jesse and many others here, I think it’s great how much people are willing to share for people like me to learn.
Most important, input levels need to be the same! ❗ mp3gain’d all my tracks to 89db and got rid of a normalizer plugin I was using on the input side. Big difference. New setup that seems to sound good on both my hits and classic rock streams using plutonium.
Plutonium
HPF 30
Bandwidth Full
Roll Off 11 (really helped with the excessive ringing on the high end)
Noise Reduction OnFinal drive -1.0
Range 48
Power 34
Speed 43
Bass Cut -10
Bass Shape 0Edcast out
Even though I’m somewhat addicted to the output sound of Plutonium, I’m sticking with Rustonium using the settings in a few posts above this one. It just seems to handle a wide variety of music more consistently.
[quote author=”timmywa”]My question, if this is just for streaming, why use HPF and enable bandwidth limiting at all? Why not shoot the moon and sound as full and complete as possible? No need to filter to protect a transmitter anywhere…
What is the rationale?
Thanks![/quote]
I don’t like excessive pumping and noise in my stream 😉
[quote author=”Boki”][quote author=”radiospinnaker”]Tried that, didn’t like it. I still want a little punch in the sound 😀[/quote]
And Rustonium is better in that 🙂[/quote]Now that I have my audio chain set up correctly and the settings where they should be.. all I can say is "WOW". This program is absolutely amazing. My 32k aac+ stream sounds as good as my 128k stream. If you’re reading this and wondering if Breakaway Live is worth the cash, I say to you absolutely!
[quote author=”kes11″]Mind sharing your Rustonium settings? That webcast sounds really good to me. 🙂[/quote]
Sure, no problem:
Rustonium
Peak 0
Final -0.2
Range 48
Power 45
Speed 35
Bass -3
Shape 0HPF 20hz
Bandwidth 15 Khz
Roll off 5
NR onEdCast out
No stereo enhancer[quote author=”radiospinnaker”][quote author=”Boki”][quote author=”radiospinnaker”]Tried that, didn’t like it. I still want a little punch in the sound 😀[/quote]
And Rustonium is better in that 🙂[/quote]Okie.. maybe I’ll load that up and goof with it. I do like the sound I have now though. Thanks for the feedback 🙂[/quote]
Trying out Rustonium, I do like it better after I dialed it in a bit, thanks for the advice Boki 😉
[quote author=”Boki”][quote author=”radiospinnaker”]Tried that, didn’t like it. I still want a little punch in the sound 😀[/quote]
And Rustonium is better in that 🙂[/quote]Okie.. maybe I’ll load that up and goof with it. I do like the sound I have now though. Thanks for the feedback 🙂
[quote author=”Boki”]That what you want "Rustonium" is much better choice. Plutonium is not intended for that from start.[/quote]
Tried that, didn’t like it. I still want a little punch in the sound 😀
[quote author=”sebastien.wittebolle”]i listen your radio now with winamp 😀
The sound is very good , but it seem have lot of bass and it’s low général level , but i repeat it’s very good 😉[/quote]
I went for dynamic peaks instead of generally loud all the time as that wears me out quickly. It’s still great volume output but if someone was looking at a spectrum analyzer, you wouldn’t see all frequencies smashed at peak. That could be obtained by turning up the power a bit or increasing the final drive. I really hate sybillance (sssss sound) so that’s why I chose to keep the drive low and closer to the source audio sound. I like a little bass ‘pop’ but that could be easily tweaked with the bass shape most likely. Thanks for the feedback!
