surround possible on Breakaway Broadcast ASIO

Actually @ "WOW"… it’s not a surround effect. It’s just two channel. Basically all of those "enhancer" things are for stereo sound, and they are generally crap.

But in the case of WOW, if you get the professional rackmount unit for it, which i believe to be ULTRA rare, it’s got a few more adjustments for the WOW effect (and thankfully the ability to turn off TrueBass completely)… And depending on the processing after it, it can actually sound pretty dang amazing.

I don’t know if anyone remembers the old WolfFM on Shoutcast. That was my first #1 adventures, with Steve Wolf, as I was responsible for the sound of the station. Basically out of the mixer’s master bus, through the WOW, and into an Omnia.3NET using "an alternate PCMCIA card" that Omnia sent us. I then retuned one of the presets from the card specifically for the station’s playlist and the sound both me and Steve wanted. It sounded freakin GOOD for its time.

The first "Save Internet Radio" broadcast was done on WolfFM also, while I was then with Radioio, which also participated in the event. So that was a good "family" reunion, and a lot of great interactions happened that day, which literally DID save internet radio. DIMA came out of that, for instance. 😉

Anyways… yeah, sometimes it’s all about how you use something, even though some implementations of a technology might be crap always, sometimes there’s exceptions.

Unfortunately all available WOW units for consumers that I’ve seen are way too aggressive with the way they rework the stereo image, and don’t provide a few crucial controls to tone it down. But yeah, WOW definitely screws with mono compatibility, so for broadcasting it’s not nearly as good of an idea as Challenger, which maintains mono compatibility. 8)