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Yeah the only thing that can cause a BSOD is the audio drivers. Try using something besides KS. Some drivers (obviously really bad ones) falsely report that they support KS, when they do not, and that could possible cause a BSOD.
are you measuring the output through the resistor?
1 megaohm is a bit huge… it might be happening if your resistor has different impedance across the spectrum. this is a common problem for headphone amps when using higher impedance headphones (250+ ohms) since the impedance changes across the spectrum on many professional "cans".
just that large amount of resistance could be making the amp in the soundcard operate that way anyways. 10,000 ohms is standard for a line level input. so adding a million more does seem a bit excessive, no?
Honestly… the Omnia 3 NET is a great box for net radio. I would rather have an Omnia ONE, but the 3 NET can do some great stuff if you start with the right preset. I don’t know how to access the advanced menus on it (I’m sure Omnia would tell you if you asked) but when I did WolfFM’s setup we started from a preset Omnia gave us on PCMCIA card… and I have to say it’s still one of the best sounding setups I’ve ever done for net radio. Unfortunately WolfFM was lost in a flood and a fire all at once… I’m not sure if it’ll ever be back on the air or not.
They are definitely using a huge amount of high frequency exciting too. If i had to pick analog I would say Aphex driven very hard. If I had to pick software it could be a number of things. Even Stereo Tool has one right? Another thing the sound reminds me of would be pretty easy to get with BBE Harmonic Maximizer (not the same thing as their Sonic Maximizer).
There’s quite a bit of clipping on this, not just bass clipping, so it can’t be the Optimod 110x. Hmm yeah, it’s definitely doing multiband clipping pretty heavily (and/or easily distorted clippers) sometimes, with less than full scale output. Something Stereo Tool does. I was thinking of Stereo Tool right away yesterday too. If it is then they are linking the bands pretty heavily or just not doing much multiband AGC.
With fresh ears I realize that it’s not as much the compression or hole punching as it is the distortion that makes me want to turn this off.
Hmm, if you want a more compressed sound, have you tried Eruption preset? Or a tweaked French Kiss with the speed up maybe?
"Competitive with FM broadcasts" isn’t a very high goal. 😉
This sound is definitely compressed, and pumping, and punching holes like Ali. It’s not Breakaway, because there isn’t a preset that clips the bass like that… except for one I’ve been working on for a year and it isn’t out yet, and it doesn’t pump or hole punch at all.
It sounds much better on oldies because it doesn’t correctly handle recent productions. Man, you seriously don’t hear how the bass is modulating the loudness of everything else? There’s also a lot of IMD from that sometimes. I would not listen to this station for very long if I found it in the wild.
In order to calibrate the output, you have to calibrate the input. I must not have been clear enough about that in my last post.
quote :Are you saying the input jack on the calibration tool machine will somehow skew the results?It *can*, absolutely.
quote :Is this result unreliable?Probably. It depends on if the soundcard has a dc-straight input or not. A dc-straight input would not have a phase shift. But having a dc-straight input is almost never the case. You *need* to calibrate the input first. 🙂
a parallel port can produce a square wave. a soundcard output that isn’t dc straight and hasn’t been calibrated yet can’t reproduce one accurately, which is what you need to calibrate the inputs.
without a calibrated input you can’t then accurately calibrate the output with the calibration tool or use something like MPX Tool. so it’s basically used because it’s a known good source in every case so far.
No need to get off air, somehow there’s a bunch of trash getting mixed into the output of the soundcard. I don’t have one of these, maybe someone with one can see what you’re doing wrong instantly. You could probably post a screenshot of your IO Config from Breakaway, and your ASIO control panel screens that are relevant.
Actually, after thinking about this, I’m not sure that the only thing that’s happening is that the input is mixing back into the lows. The input audio doesn’t have spectrum up by the RDS. Is the RDS generator you’re using *only* outputting RDS? I think Breakaway filters that out anyways, but I’m not sure. You wanna make sure that your RDS generator isn’t also sending audio or composite.
I just checked your MPX file, thanks to send that.
Yes, you are mixing the input back into the output. Did you try turning down the input sliders? It’s definitely just a routing problem in the soundcard mixer. 🙂
No pilot protection, RDS protection, etc. 😉 I bet this really distorts even worse if the FM demodulator isn’t as awesome as MPX Tool’s. hehe.
are the "play" sliders supposed to be up? somehow the "Master" on the right side is showing that it’s mixing your analog inputs and Breakaway’s outputs together. that is at least part of the problem.
You can also reduce the gain in Breakaway’s output too, to whatever you need. I don’t know if the level of the output is what you’re hearing though, but I would try that too. Is there a way you can record the sound of your FM off air?
