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I haven’t decided between buying Breakaway Live or Breakaway Broadcast. If one already has a transmitter with stereo generator, limiter and outboard hardware for RDS, what good advantages are still left in using Breakaway Broadcast that aren’t found in using Breakaway Live?
Breakaway Broadcast is way better for FM broadcasting, because it is more louder (due to better clipper, does Live even have one?).. It uses the spectrum more efficiently I guess, FM is a noisy medium! Live is NOT designed for FM, Broadcast IS.
It is better to leave all the audio processing for BBP to handle (yes, you should disable the limiter from the transmitter..)
Breakaway Broadcast is *much* cleaner and louder on the air than Breakaway Live with another piece of gear doing the peak control.
The pre-emphasis clippers in Breakaway Broadcast use realtime psychoacoustics to keep distortion as masked as possible at all times — the preceding multiband processor neither knows nor cares that it’s processing for FM. I have found that this is the best way to get clean, effortless yet loud audio onto the airwaves.
In this way, Breakaway Broadcast is very different from any other processor on the market (except for Omnia.9). All other processors that I know of, use a more traditional approach of designing a simpler back-end clipping first, and then adjusting the multiband section and limiters to keep distortion at a reasonable level by simply not driving the clipper that hard.
In short, putting a traditional limiter/clipper after Breakaway Live (rather than the psychoacoustic clipper in Breakaway Broadcast) will not sound very good on the air — it will either be too quiet or have too much distortion. ALL the work of making the Breakaway core’s output audio FM compliant is done by the back-end in Breakaway Broadcast, and this back-end is completely missing for Live, as it is not necessary either for live sound or streaming, and would both add delay and degrade audio quality in those applications.
///Leif
[quote author=”DBB”]I haven’t decided between buying Breakaway Live or Breakaway Broadcast. If one already has a transmitter with stereo generator, limiter and outboard hardware for RDS, what good advantages are still left in using Breakaway Broadcast that aren’t found in using Breakaway Live?[/quote]
It’s a no brainer, sell the stereo gen, limiter and RDS coder (assuming it’s pro gear). Build a fast PC with a nice soundcard (Marian Trace alpha or Esi Juli@), buy Breakaway Broadcast (and Airomate) and spend the remaining money on a nice holiday..
Win-Win..Yorkie.
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