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Personally I like Mogami. For the price (quite affordable) they have the lowest capacitive inductance measurements I’ve seen, beating esoteric cables costing many (many) times more.
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I know beta testers for almost every "worth while" TCV software on the market right now, so you can be sure that I’ll pass the test versions on to them for Leif when the time comes, and she will be abused greatly. 😉
[quote author=”Audio”]I have been monitoring our sound using a Bose QuietComfort headset, hopefully this doesn’t mess up my perception of things.[/quote]
It definitely could. There’s a lot of value to "knowing" the inaccuracies of your listening environment, but… that doesn’t overcome everything, not by a long shot.[quote author=”kes11″]Also: IMHO the "Rock" preset isn’t ideal. 🙂[/quote]
If I were using it, I would definitely be pushing to have less range, slower speed, and a bit less drive as well.[quote author=”timmywa”]How much difference are we going to "see" between a 128kb/s MP3 stream and a 128kb/s LC-AAC stream? I’ve listened on and off but I just don’t have the ears to hear much difference in detail.[/quote]
It really depends on the program material. I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent considerable time to blind ABX my way down to that certain version of Lame we know and love now… So it’s probably not even fair to be comparing any old LC-AAC to it. The same research would have to be done for LC-AAC in order to compare the best to the best.Another good example of that is that Lame/settings, against 320kbps joint stereo mp3 as encoded by iTunes’ crazy messed up "tweaked" FhG. There are probably not many tracks that the iTunes mp3 would actually win on.
The advantages that LC-AAC has are several fold, but this, I personally think, is one of the biggest differences to mp3…
quote :AAC encoders can switch dynamically between a single MDCT block of length 1024 points or 8 blocks of 128 points (or between 960 points and 120 points, respectively).- If a signal change or a transient occurs, 8 shorter windows of 128/120 points each are chosen for their better temporal resolution.
- By default, the longer 1024-point/960-point window is otherwise used because the increased frequency resolution allows for a more sophisticated psychoacoustic model, resulting in improved coding efficiency.
As long as you’re not clipping into Breakaway, then the peaks should be as high as they are in the original recording, which varies depending on how dynamic the original is. You definitely should *not* be limiting the peaks before Breakaway.
[quote author=”Audio”]What I don’t get is why drums are fine (if not a bit low) going into BBP but so "loud" in Breakaway Live?[/quote]
If there is a big difference at all, other than Live sounding a bit more detailed (no pre-emphasis, no low-pass required) then something is definitely wrong.Could you upload an mp3 with a few minutes of it?
Also, what preset are you using? What version of Breakaway Live are you using?
[quote author=”Audio”]I have tried all all I could think off in trying to reduce the amount of bass[/quote]
Other places to check that BBP doesn’t have is the "Settings", the "Loudness Settings" and "Parametric Equalizer". You wanna make sure that "Loudness" is disabled, and that the "Parametric EQ" gains are all 0dB which reads "Defeat".Another place to check would be in the "Speaker Settings" to make sure the "Bass Clip" is at 0dB (aka off), and I suppose to make sure "LPF" (Low-Pass Filter) frequency is on "Defeat". But I would think you would notice massively if that low-pass was active.
[quote author=”GuntherM”]We switched yesterday to 128kbps AAC+[/quote]
with AAC at 96kbps or above, you should be using the Low Complexity profile, aka LC-AAC, aka "regular" "normal" AAC, you’ll get a more transparent sound from it… and you won’t sound like 22kHz sample rate on players that don’t support HE/PS profiles. 8)You should be able to use it on an FX bus, with Breakaway Live version, and use Reaper’s routing and auto delay detection to compensate for the added latency.
Only drivers can cause BSODs (Blue Screen of Death), so what happened is probably your soundcard’s drivers don’t properly support Kernel Streaming, which is the default low-latency interface Breakaway will try *if* the soundcard drivers say it has it.
So you could try upgrading the soundcard drivers, or just use DirectSound or Wave (MME). 8)
Cheers.
[quote author=”Milky”]didn’t think the poster would be up to hacking to turn on hidden MS fixes.[/quote]
True. Installing 32bit Ubuntu is way easier. 😉
ReplayGain isn’t normalizing to the highest peak on an mp3 or FLAC, and it’s only effecting the file when it plays back, so it’s on destructive. What it’s making the same is an average loudness.
[quote author=”Milky”]1) ANY 32 bit OS can only address up to 3GB of RAM, so there is no point in increasing past that point (unless your on-board video can use it).[/quote]
Not true. The mainboard/chipset uses 36bits to address memory, and Windows even fixed the bug to be able to address it all, but they decided not to include that as a matter of licensing. Not technical inability. Leif (and many others) even "hacked" their 32bit Vista/7 installations to "turn on" this fix, and have way over 4GB.[quote author=”Milky”]3) The motherboard chipset and BIOS will only work with a particular RAM geometry and speed. If you go higher than that speed, it will probably not run, or it will continue to run at the clock speed dictated by the chipset/BIOS.[/quote]
Yes most memory these days have built in reduced clock profiles in the SPD, the chip on the stick that tells the computer what its abilities are. Getting memory that’s rated faster than your mainboard is NOT a problem, but it’s a bit of a waste price wise, unless you are sure you’re going to be doing overclocking to a point that lower speed memory wouldn’t be able to handle. (not normal unless you’re using liquid cooling on your CPU)—
That being said, asking strictly what the max memory supported doesn’t seem like the best place to start asking questions about what you need. There’s Intel chipsets that support 48 GB, and AMD chipsets that support 64 GB. Most servers of any type don’t even need anywhere near that.
What are you trying to do with this box anyways?
[quote author=”Leif”]There will be program EQ in future versions of Breakaway.[/quote]
… which should only be used after careful setup and calibration of decent studio monitors. or really good headphones like Sennheiser HD-600/650 or Beyerdynamic DT-880 (or some of their new higher-end Tesla stuff). otherwise, you’re inevitably also compensating for your monitors and acoustics, in all but the best rooms with the best mastering monitors.I’ll add that while it can be done, you’re WAY better off just doing it all on the same computer. If the second computer is equally as capable as the first, then what I recommend is setting up a spare so that if your current computer goes down, you’re only off the air for a short time.
When using two computers to do the job that one could do, it all comes down to… you would only be adding more links in the chain that can break. I learned this in spades when we setup radioio which insisted that we use 1 computer for playback, 1 for my own processing, and 1 for encoding. Even though we were using digital audio, it was rife with problems. We eventually had it all on one single machine, and not only removed all of the issues we had, but we were able to triple the number of channels we had. 🙂
