JesseG

Your next post will be the last captcha you'll get, and you can always request to see a new captcha if it's hard to read.  We are getting attacked by networks of spam bots pretty badly, but we're keeping them out pretty good now.  And it's not the captcha doing most of it.

Anywho…  you need to use one of the attenuation plugins before you use any plugin that could cause loss of peak control, which is just about all plugins.  I recommend the 6dB attenuation version. 🙂

As for EQ, this is the only one I could recommend for quality linear-phase low-ripple that you can still buy. It's free actually. 🙂
http://www.winamp.com/plugin/4front-eq10-winamp5-version/143894
I don't recommend using the "FAT" option.  MP3restore mileage may vary, it's replacing everything above 16kHz with sampled granule DSP and I've only heard one of those that sounds good, and that isn't it.  I wouldn't recommend using anything but the EQ.  I'll also recommend only reducing the sounds that you don't want, not trying to boost the sounds that you do want.  In general you'll get much better results.  I do and I've been mastering for 15 years, and "doing sound" for over 20.  It avoids psychoacoustic phenomena with our heard related to Fletcher-munson curves, and that anything that's simply louder *does* sound better… but it's a lie from our ears & brains that doesn't actually hold true in the long run at all.

I also recommend leaving ReplayGain enabled, and using at least -6dB pre-amp for songs that don't have ReplayGain values yet.  And of course… scanning your entire library.  Actually…  Foobar2000 is a much more convenient & better ReplayGain scanner, mostly because it uses the new international loudness standard (ITU-R BS.1770-3 / EBU P/LOUD's R128).

The current Breakaway stuff does actually use standard "common controls" but it's extremely hacked to make look the way it does.  The Newframework is completely self generated though, and the only thing it uses from the host OS is a blit to make it show up on the gpu/screen.

I'll ask Leif about what the future holds for the visually impaired.

That should change now that I've blocked ~all of the spam (and i'm adding more anti-spam stuff later) for now, and banned all of the spammers that posted so far.  I still have a bunch to weed out that registered, but…  I've been investigating and removing/blocking spam/spammers for the last 10 hours.  That's about enough for one day. xD

No not really top secret, but those (even in the Omnia.9) are also arbitrary numbers that drive algorithms that set the actual values. So there won’t by anything useful to you like millisecond timings, etc. But yea, some of the original public presets ship with the Omnia.9, most of them having being updated at least a little to re-calibrate a few things that got skewed. (normally the presets are fully forward-compatible)

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: SAMBC.exe
IMAGE_NAME: vaclcskd.sys

So SAM is crashing Virtual Audio Cable (Breakaway Pipeline is a licensed copy of it). After "a few days"…
System Uptime: 33 days 18:31:54.020
Hmm… have you tried having SAM access the Pipeline you’re using with a different method? (Wave/mme, DirectSound, etc)

report it to them with the minidump file the BSOD generates (and set it to do that if you haven’t yet).

I’ve updated the original post, but for the AAC bits we should probably have the final version of Winamp that still included that CT encoder in it linked as well. Tim, you did some research on that, what version was that?