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nah don’t disable the print spooler. it’s not just used for printing believe it or not, and this is a hold over from the very ancient days of windows (think v3.1 and earlier). at the time the print spooler was running in a special space/mode with unique interrupts etc and was used for a lot of things other than printing messages, so you need it for legacy support of a shrinking list of certain things.
not sure how turning it off would increase stability even if you didn’t run into any problems by having it off. it’s one of those bits of code that is like a rock, and coded in MASM32.
there are lists out there by the way. 😉
Personally I would use XP since it’s still supported by M$. Unless it’s behind some other firewall (based on linux preferably) with very locked down access. I wouldn’t trust a software firewall on it to do the job.
At any rate 2000 and XP both have a bug where the box just won’t make audio at all after exactly 365 days, and you need to reboot the machine. I had over 200 machines at LimeLight Networks that I was managing for about 5 years, all XP SP1… and they all had uptimes of 1 year other than one that failed because of the hard-drive. If it hadn’t been for that, they all would have had 5 years of uptime.
Most guys that parrot Linux being more stable don’t like that hear that, but it’s 100% true. There is one thing about Linux that I will admit is that it’s more stable when you are abusing how it’s configured, and less knowledgeable about its internal functions.
Themes in XP can be disabled easily. It’s a normal service. Just stop the service, set it to disabled, "problem" solved.
Yep. It detects if a signal is mono or not. 8) Actually… it’s quite a bit more advanced than that. But "yep" is a good short answer, no?
Audio processing to the faceless masses of "insert anything here" audio playback systems is actually about the law of averages. The more that one tries to make an audio processor’s output sound "good" on a totally crappy system, the worse it sounds on yet another totally crappy yet different system.
I’m not saying there isn’t concerns that you can have with how one should design a sound, with regard to these "lesser" playback systems. But if it ever becomes something that is "un-enjoyable" on a system that is really transparent… then DE FACTO your station WILL sound worse on average. It is an inescapable fact.
The #1 reason for not doing it in the AGC is because the AGC is way faster than this plugin. Ideally any channel imbalance correction be done with a very slow time constant.
AGC… not so slow. 😉 If you’ve heard a processor that does it, you’ve hopefully also heard how the stereo image whips all over kingdom come.
Heck, I bought a netbook for $129 two weeks ago and it runs fine on that. With plenty of CPU left. And it has about the lowest specs I’ve ever seen in a netbook. Celeron M @ 900 mHz.
[quote author=”sebastien.wittebolle”]i have a intel atom n270 , it’s good too ?[/quote]
It’s generally slightly faster than the N280, not sure if that translates to BBP, but it should be pretty close performance wise. Let us know how it goes if/when the beta is released.[quote author=”livelike321″]the DH model looks pretty nice.
[/quote]Indeed:
[quote author=”sgeirk”]emu audio in>breakaway live wav input->pipeline output>encoder ???[/quote]
Yep.[quote author=”sgeirk”]Anyone using this setup on the same machine with streaming encoding software like Ando or StreamAds?[/quote]
It should work fine with Ando’s software. I contracted there for a few months btw. 🙂It is. 😀 Been listening to it for the last few days. What’s nice is it doesn’t add any audible delay sound to the audio, unlike many stereo enhancers. So there’s no weird phase issues or what sounds like reverb, especially for vinyl pops & clicks. Or minimal techno. 😉
how does the 4-band enhancer meters show width reduction? do they sit about halfway out if they are not increasing or decreasing? or does it go outward in some other color?
can’t wait to try it out 8)
I won’t dance around the facts.
The noise is from your soundcard and from your DJ mixer. analog audio devices just have noise, period. it’s just that some of them have less noise than others.
You can optimize the signal to noise by having proper levels with any gear though, so that’s part of the battle. But with your onboard audio there’s only so much you can do, and I bet it’s not much.
You’ll have to get a more professional souncard (and I’m not talking about a Soundblaster X-Fi here, that would be just as bad as what you already have). The benefit other than way better signal to noise, is that you’ll end up with way better sound quality too.
the 1st link is down.
perma link here, hopefully…
http://multimedia.wbz.com/m/video/24656 … louder.htmi love that the web video is actually distorted from being too loud. 😛 priceless. maybe they need a box that processes their media clips in an offline mode. 😉
[quote author=”SDF”]So tilt will not being required anymore? —> like Orban 1100.[/quote]
The 1100 doesn’t do clipping, and it’s not an FM processor, so you don’t need that level of peak control… which is why you don’t need to worry about any tilt.
But for tight peak control, tilt can always be an issue in some way. If it doesn’t come from your DAC, then it could come from somewhere else, and then Breakaway’s tilt features come in mighty handy.
