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And don’t let me catch you online from the beach again this time, or I swear I’ll DDoS your uplink. 😀 j/k man, have a great time.
[quote author=”Leif”]make sure not to set the bandwidth in BBP lower than the bandwidth in the encoder, as this causes overshoots and downstream clipping[/quote]
I think you meant to say:
quote :make sure not to set the bandwidth in BBP higher than the bandwidth in the encoder, as this causes overshoots and downstream clippingbut you sort of explained what you meant right after, so hopefully people got it. Just clarifying.
AdamH, I have my first genre specific preset just about done, very stabilized in the last few months, which will probably find its way into the next round of releases. Oh, and the genre is Rock. 8) It’s called Motor City.
Co-incidentally it has slow attacks and even slower releases. Nice & punchy, yet still manages to eat massive transient jumps in volume. Contradiction, I know.
To let the cat out of the bag, since it’s already peeking its head out anyways, the plan for a while now already was to have a COMPLETE solution in the box, so that you can just plug the exciter output of the box itself right into the transmitter. This is NOT an announced for-sure feature yet, but Leif wants to do it. And personally I think it’s an awesome idea.
The DDS design by sigmacom just happened to come at exactly the right place & time. Good on you, sigmacom. 🙂 And yeah, this box is going to sound SCARY GOOD.
Call me crazy, but eventually the signal has to be turned into analog to become electro-magnetic in nature and amplified for the antenna, etc, etc… And I was under the impression that’s what the DDS exciter sigmacom is working on does. Gets the digital signal as far down the path as will ever be possible within the FM design, and delivers a signal higher quality than any known method we currently have.
Am I wrong?
[quote author=”ASchuelke”]Jesse,
As long as we’re on the topic of Rustonium, I’d just like to give you a quick "atta boy" on that preset. Warm, stable, perfect in every way.
By the name and sound, I assume it’s kind of a combination of Plutonium and Rust ’73 (??)
By the way, the new version of BBP doesn’t have ’73 or ’83 included… only Rustonium.[/quote]
Yeah I’m not sure, but it might have to do with the votes. Apparently the solid midrange prioritied vintage sound wasn’t very popular. And yes, Rustonium is Rusticity + Plutonium. Thanks to Keith @ Deeper Into Music for the suggestion to make it in the first place.
I may be lost here, but isn’t the DDS talked about in the other topics in the FM band already? How would 10mHz be better since it would have to be stepped up using an analog circuit?
[quote author=”Leif”]BBP follows this rule internally, with all presets
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Vriendelijke groeten,
///Leif[/quote]This is true, but it’s very close to being untrue for a few presets that have an uncanny ability to "eat" huge gain increases without being noticed at all, case in point Rustonium.
That was NOT easy, and the better part of a few weeks were spent tuning and listening to how it reacted to transients. It wouldn’t have been possible without Breakaway’s AGC which is easily the best there is right now. Actually, if anyone finds a large attack in a song or promo or whatever… that Rustonium has a problem with, I would love to get a copy of that audio file. 🙂
Anyways, when you’re chaining processors together, that would be next to impossible to attempt (because of separated & just plain inferior topology of other processors), much less get flawless.
I agree with Leif, get rid of the Innovonics at least. It’s debatable if you need the 204, because it could be used to slightly correct for slightly bad EQ of hardware before hand, but an actual EQ would be a lot better correction. 😉 and the Compellor… that would have to be setup to be VERY slow even if it did give you an advantage.
Here’s my take on the Compellor. Eventually everything will run out of headroom, the Compellor included. The one advantage would be that the Compellor’s gain stages might be cleaner than just having the headroom at the soundcard, because of the soundcard’s noise. So in adding the Compellor to your chain, all that you’re doing is taking the headroom limits from your Breakaway’s soundcard and displacing it to the Compellor. And the more that becomes an advantage in reducing noise, the more it’s going to have to effect the dynamics.
If that’s the case, then might I suggest it’s time for you to get a better soundcard?
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As far as presets… try out the two Rusticity presets. Especially Rusticity ’73. It was inspired heavily by the sound and hysteresis of some of those 70s setups. Namely the DAP310 and Volumax. Adjust the bass as desired.
As far as the transmitter, I think all you’re talking about is a D-Class switching amplifier. 😉 Not sure how that would be beneficial to the sound, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the solid-state transmitters already have that topology. It’s efficient and cheap.
10 KB + hundreds of megabytes to download .NET 😉
10 KB in an ASM app would be easy, and doesn’t rely on any external libraries. But not many people know ASM.
[quote author=”Leif”]However, my hope lies with the fact that people do take notice when they come across really good audio. It’s one way a station can stand out above all the ones that don’t care.[/quote]
Exactly, which goes to show that people DO notice when it’s bad too, they just don’t know why they don’t like it without proper training.
There’s one algorithm in particular that can enhance bandwidth limited audio files in a pleasant and not-overbearing manor, which was invented by a father & son from florida and now licensed by a few companies like BBE. This (the BBE MP algorithm) does frequency extension and tends to extend "good" harmonics in the transients to make it sound warmer but…
You still won’t be able to fix the artifacts that will be there. There’s currently no way to fix these, and probably never will be. What is lost, is lost forever.
Lastly: most of the FM stations are stupid. Buck the trend, and use 320kbps Lame, or even better – FLAC.
The settings are there but just ignored since, in the case of Plutonium, band 6 goes up to 22kHz since it’s the highest band. 💡 If it was a 4 band preset, the highest band would also go to 22kHz, and there would still be 7 bands listed in the preset file, with bands 5-7 settings just being ignored since there are no such bands. And of course in a 7 band preset, it’ll use all band settings.
All that the presets do is change the way that everything operates. You can’t disable them, and until the hardware box comes out you can’t make your own by having full control.
If you want the default "factory" "straight-up" preset where many of the values are middle of the road, per Leif’s design… then try the "Reference" preset.
I also recommend trying the "Zenith" preset, if you like a very unprocessed sound.
