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Thanks. There may be more sensitive tuners out there…but the Nikko is the most sensitive I’ve ever owned. That means I’ll be purchasing another EMU0202, so I can fairly compare stations. Soooo….would i sum the horiz and vert outputs of the tuner to one input for the soundcard?
By the way…the EMU seems to be the cheapest 192khz soundcard out there, didn’t require a lot of tilt correction, and it’s USB!
I have a Nikko Gamma 20 FM tuner, that’s from the 80’s…seems like an early ‘digital’ FM tuner…has great sensitivity…on the back there are horizontal and vertical audio rca jacks underneath a heading that says "multipath". Would that constitute compoosite output? Thanking you.
I found and installed Spartacus…but I can’t really hear it making any difference…how have others managed to configure it? Within Winamp or BB itself? I can’t figure out how to manage it within BB, and within Winamp, I’m not hearing any depth. Thanks.
I get the appeal, on the other hand Breakaway comes with all the loudness I could ever need, and more metering built-in than you can shake a stick at.
Thanks, Leif. I will give Spartacus a shot tomorrow night.
So THAT’S what the ITU stokkemasker (sic) is! Are all stokkemasker limiters 256 bands? Or just yours?
I never saw the purpose of 31 bands, btw…much less 256. 😆
while on the subject of plugins…anyone know of a good stereo plugin that doesn’t futz too much with mono compatibility?
Space EFX in the Omnia 6 is probably my favorite.
Leif,
I believe mpeg 2 and apt-x were the most popular codecs in earlier generation digital STL’s. I felt apt-x sounded superior and suffered less when cascaded. (yuck)
I’m sure your engineer is a great guy. Bob and Greg at Orban have been maintaining the final word on broadcast quality for 30 some odd years and it’s still a great read:
ftp://ftp.orban.com/Audio%20Quality/Mai … y_2008.pdf
There’s a wicked comparison of the various flavors of codecs, but in the end, on page 18: "either no compression or lossless compression will achieve the highest quality." Either way, I think we agree…and either way, mp3’s have a high tendency to show themselves on the air when processed aggressively.
If you’re running a Harris Intraplex, the path itself is probably uncompressed. We’re thrilled with our Moseley Starlink, we’re sending two linear 44.1 khz AES audio streams and two 4800 baud data channels over one licensed STL path some 10 miles away.
Your engineer friend is incorrect. Bit reduction, any way you cut it, except FLAC, will negatively affect the quality of audio reproduced.
Clear Channel’s centralized music library is recorded at, last check, 48khz, 4.8:1 compression using mpeg2. They cannot possibly support linear wav files, since they rely upon being able to shuttle songs back and forth via the WAN.
Leif,
Can you help explain the difference between slam and clunk settings in the new phase rotator. While I like the names…what does each affect? Thanks.
To my ears it almost sounds like adjusting some sort of texture settings of a composite clipper…or something. Thanks! Brilliant.
I’m racing a radio station using a Rock setting in an Omnia6, with BB, latest version, clunk rotator and bass plugin…nothing else. The station I’m racing is running 80khz deviation, too!
BB is running fully legal at 75khz avg dev and BB and is just beating the PANTS off of them…it’s a clear channel station, though…so I know their music is compressed. Mine is not. Wish I had another 192khz soundcard to run mpx tool.
The new bass plugin REALLY tightens and rounds the bass juuust right. Much more bass consistency song-to-song and source-to-source. Makes it sound more like the expensive boxes.
Hearing it, I would never have EVER possibly guessed that the processor was a freaking WINDOWS PC!!!
Near as I can tell, the hardware is more likely to crash on all versions of BB, before the software will.
