So This Is Good Audio

I’m running Breakaway Enhancer through Winamp and with a few plugins. An equalizer set at flat just so I can cut the highest and lowest bands, a neat one called Bad Buss Mojo that dials in a touch of non-linearity, and Somewhat Mono to mono the whole track out. After that, I’ve got Zenith at 75-70-65 with bass boosted to +10 and bass shape at -10 . Nothing, but nothing, in over a decade of using plugins from Octimax to Izotope Ozone has come this close to recreating the sound of my favorite local AM station from when I was a kid growing up.

The AGC is rock steady and there’s no yellow at all in the multiband readouts. It’s warm and sweet. Once I get some finished tracks up on my stream I’ll post a link here, as I’d like to get some opinions. I have just enough experience with hardware compressors to feel like a dirt-track stock car driver who’s just been handed the keys to a Formula One car.