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This Rustonium preset that Jesse threw up sounds better than my suggestions-hands down.
I hear a sense of bass punch and dynamics being restored to today’s garbage. I’m thoroughly impressed.
For the internet, I prefer plutonium, however, I back off a smidge on virtually all settings. There’s really no need to be THAT FREAKING LOUD on the internet. None. Plutonium does a fantastic job virtually as-is.
For on-air, I still prefer plutonium. I find lowering the bass shape to -15 or -20 and lowering the bass setting a bit, increasing the range to about 60 and decreasing the power and speed to about 38-45…then increasing the final drive to taste (just a smidge)…gets a sound JUST as loud as an Omnia6exi, but noticeably more open.
Bass plugin set to 2 and the slam/clunk plugin set to about 3, too.
Your mileage may vary.
This is for a modern rock/alternative format.
When I first looked at those settings, the two things that struck me were the final drive and bass boost settings.
😯
I can’t imagine running BBP that extreme. Every processor has "that song" that might cause it to lose composure. I really haven’t heard BBP perform obviously poorly on anything yet. 🙂
I agree. Not full control, but a little more control. I’d like to see a final mix adjustment of a few db here or there. Perhaps be able to make limited changes to the attack/release controls of each band within a preset.
However, if I were Leif, I’d be working mostly on a box. There’s money to be made there. Furthermore, folks will take the whole product line much more seriously if there’s a flagship "box", I’m afraid. The IP/STL integration makes the prospect even more juicy.
It could seriously alter the audio processing game…I, for one, find it fascinating.
I would build it into a hardware version and not include it with a software version. I mean…c’mon!!!! 🙄
As far as I remember, Leif actually suggests Windows 2000.
Vista requires a lot of system overhead that’s best left to the computer to use for processing audio instead of Vista.
However, depending on how new the computer you are using IS, just make sure the motherboard supports xp drivers.
I tried running a recent demo install of BBP .82 and got shaky results on a 2.8mHz P4. It ran…but barely.
If I was building a machine for on-air use, I wouldn’t use anything less than a dual-core machine. Much more stable.
I like this message board…processing freaks plus radio and streaming folks, awesome 😛 !!! Thank u, you described the issue…it’s as though the card isn’t part of windows.
I would really rather just control the card from the windows mixer, frankly, since I’m not looking to start or stop a nuclear power plant. 🙂
Oh trust me, when I tried BBP for the very first time and plugged in that exciter to a soundcard…I clearly realized when something worked right…in fact I about hit the FLOOR.
The machine that had troubles is a early dual core (Pentium D), XP Pro Service Pack 2, 512 meg of ram (i know, right?). 😆
What’s weird is that it’s running .82 just fine on a SINGLE CORE Pentium IV XP Pro 2002, Service Pack 3, with a gig of ram!
Both are using soundblaster live 24 soundcards as the input. (yeah, I know, right?) 😆
That’s the problem…the EMU software is insanely complicated.
We’d like to go audio inputs>EMU soundcard>breakaway live input(wave)>breakaway pipeline 1>to edcast
Streamaudio does audio playout from it’s ad insertion software…we’re using a soundblaster and it works well…but with the EMU card…it’s hairy getting the playout from the software to "mix in" with the card.
Perhaps we’ll just use the onboard audio card on this machine.
I agree and disagree with the earlier poster.
I agree that Breakaway has "a sound to it."
Where I disagree is that it’s unpleasant or odd or different in a bad way. What I believe the earlier poster notices is that Breakaway is transparent…much more truthful to the original source, especially compared to other broadcast processors In that regard, it really does sound DIFFERENT. It sounds far far far less fatiguing. Worth thinking about.
Everyone’s ears are different, and I am biased though, I think BBP is a groundbreaking development. cheers! 😀
