JesseG

That’s not his/her stream. 😉

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Yeah it’s processed very hard. Lots of distortion, even if it sounds good some of the time. The treble is slammed way too hard, not very crisp at all. The rest falls apart whenever the music goes from a verse to a chorus, hear how the chorus sounds weaker and more quiet??

Have you tried Breakaway’s CGSmooth preset yet? Or New York?

The Rusticity 83 preset with the bass turned up comes to mind too, but you have to do the INI tweak to enable those in the current Breakaway. Hopefully the next "budget" Breakaway products (what is currently out), when upgraded to the new framework, will have the new preset selection method, which is just a scrollable list of presets. So that (removing "unpopular" but still good presets) won’t have to be done.

what jitter percentage (low and high) is on the output, according to Breakaway’s test function?

As far as what I remember (i go through & demo a TON of VST plugins all the time, so i can’t remember them all) the Anawida graphical EQs are purposely analog style, and so are not linear-phase either. So you will be introducing phase distortion, for starters.

That doesn’t mean you won’t be satisfied with it. But I’ve found that phase distortions that end up being "good" are only on a per-track basis. Not on a broadcast chain. So it’s up to you, personal taste.

Also be careful that the phase distortions aren’t just correcting for your own audio system, and screwing up playback on 90% of everything else. 😉

Ah yes, I forgot about the other newcomer, the Vorsis M1.

Also, I just discovered this brand new (not sure if it’s even out yet) offering from Sound4, the wonderful French company started by the guy that created the IDT DVP 🙂
http://www.sound4.biz/products/sound4%2 … minary.htm
It looks like it’s basically cream your pants awesome, if you have a Livewire setup. And it also looks like they have regular digital and analog versions planned too. This is one that I’m excited to eventually hear.

[quote author=”Guillou”]I’m very curious JesseG, but can you tell us your DBX286A settings ?
Thanks[/quote]
It’s not relevant because every speaker (person talking) and microphone makes enough of a difference that the settings won’t be the same for even remotely the same voice texture, especially the difference in between speakers. That’s not to say that the DBX 286A can’t make any speaker sound better with the same "one size fits all" settings… but the real power comes with tailoring each voice processor for each speaker.

I can tell you though, that I prefer a higher drive, and a lower density. That way you get more averaging of the volume, but the lower density setting makes the OverEasy circuit keep all of the shorter term dynamics much more open and natural sounding. I like more HF Detail enhance than LF, but not so much that you start to accentuate mouth sounds. And I like a fairly open downward expander, a ratio between 1.5 and 2 and a threshold that’s as tight as you can get away with considering the speaker’s ability (or inability) to work the mic properly. But it also depends on the room the speaker is in too. If it’s not sounding too noisy listening to the on air sound on headphones, you can back off the expander a bit to allow a more natural sound between the words. Just not so low that any noise "stuttering" happens during breath sounds, or problems like that. False gate releases. 😉

[quote author=”sergio”]i was asking which of the breakaway products was more suitable.[/quote]
Comparatively, and honestly?… None of the Breakaway products really are as suitable as what was mentioned so far besides the Urei LA4 which is just a limiter.

Perhaps it’s about time for that to change, once the new generation of Breakaway products start becoming public. But we’ll save more on that for later. 😉

Just the same, our wrong answers have made a great topic so far, so I stickied it. 😆

[quote author=”radio oude stijl”]I run a stream running AAC+V2 from BA live with the edcast plug-in (and 3dB attenuator) and the highs from most presets cannot be handled by the encoder…[/quote]
not all encoders are the same, even from version to version. if you haven’t updated to the latest CT codec that comes with the latest Winamp yet, I recommend it. the improvements that they make over the last 2 years are mostly focused on that 16-48 kbps range.

[quote author=”Audio”]Unfortunately, since we are using Livelink and have no sound card (output is disabled in I/O Configuration) we have no way of checking or unchecking L/R Out De-emphasis (not sure which is the default) or to use the L/R PEQ controls…[/quote]
Not true. Breakaway installs a few instances of Breakaway Pipeline (licensed VAC) which for all intensive purposes… are soundcards as far as the software on your computer knows. Including Breakaway. 🙂 Just select one of those for the output and see what happens.

Lastly… the pre-emphasis is always de-emphasized before it gets sent to the post-processing Winamp "Encoder" plugin chain. It still doesn’t mean you shouldn’t set the pre-emphasis to something that benefits your sound. Mainly being no pre-emphasis for a more delicate sound, and 25uS pre-emphasis for a loud sound because that can somewhat avoid the audible distortion when the lossy-encoded audio naturally clips upon decoding.

See what you find. 8)

For sure even if they were the same price, with the Delta… much more of the cost in creating the card is in the raw audio quality… where as the ASUS is spent largely on licensing & chipset for supporting gaming audio technologies like Creative Labs EAX.

I would rock the ASUS in a gaming rig for sure, but forget it for anything else.

[quote author=”dj silver”]for some unknown reason [..] sound device is busy.[/quote]
That’s the problem, as I suggested before. Did you try making the pipeline your default audio device instead of your real soundcard, and reboot the computer 1st… then start up Breakaway before OTS?

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@ the price and the support level… the pricing is waaaaaay too low to allow for much of any support, so it’s all we have.

When you make the core of a $15,000 flagship box that rules the TV airwaves (and making headway into FM/AM soon) available for this insanely cheap, that’s sort of par for the course. The $15,000 box gets great 24/7 phone/etc support, and the software that’s basically being given away, well…

Lastly, there’s nothing that the 2 (total) guys that operate CEAudio know about any of this, that the community here doesn’t. And more.

[quote author=”post-it”]But shouldn’t the VS2005 sp1 package have taken care of that?
I assumed that that’s why it is mentioned in the MP3 tutorial…

Which version should I install to fix this?[/quote]

I’m not sure. It’s possible that EdCast updated what it’s being compiled with.

And speaking of service packs, I guess I did leave out a few versions above. Such as VS2005 SP1 is v8.1, and 2008 SP1 is v9.1