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Hi, folks:
I recently moved my station, Deeper Into Music, from a home-based hosting solution to a pro data center. (I’ve been hosting it from home more or less since 1999 (full time since 2001).)
I’ve been running BA Live for about 3 months now and I do really love it. I keep tweaking and messing with the settings & trying to get a good "radio" sound – more old-style than something new, though. I’m currently testing Rusticity ’83 & would really love some feedback. if you’d prefer not to clog up the board here, send your comments to dim@deeperintomusic.net .
Also, if you have any comments about content, I’d love to hear it that too.
DIM’s focus is on pop/rock/indy from 60s-today. I think of it as an updating of the old "progressive rock" idea from the 70s in the US… or pirate radio in the UK.
I feature a couple of specialty shows on the weekend, otherwise it’s the "regular mix & listener requests"…
Lemme know what you think. If you think it sucks, say so – but tell me why. 🙂 (Right now, it sounds a little harsh to me on some crash cymbals, etc.)
-Keith
Rusticity ’83
Final Drive: -.1
Range: 56
Power: 53
Speed: 46
Bass Cut: -1
Bass Shape: +7DSP:
Clunk: 1 Slam: 2 (low end on both)
Voxengo LF Punch/Max
Helium Spartacus 100% 21 ms(I had limited success w/Bass-EFX and gave up on it)
Encoder: EdCast (-1 db atten)
DIM is probably too eclectic to attrack a large audience (and that’s fine) – I usually have about 90 concurrent listeners during work hours US and daylight hours weekend and about 60 in the evening and roughly 35-45 over night (US time). Listed on iTunes -listenership is growing though.. 🙂
Definitely a little low (but smooth) on the treble side of things, which is probably a refreshing change in today’s audio standards. Has a fairly warm sound (a bit like a valve amplifier). The audio isn’t screaming, but probably doesn’t need to either. Seems to suit the genre…sounds different, but nice.
If that’s the sound you’re trying to achieve, it’s good 🙂
Thanks, Ipy. Warmth is def. one of the qualities I value most in sound, so it’s one of the things I’m after. I’d say I could push it a little harder, too. To what end, though? 🙂 Thanks for the feedbag.
Lumper, where do you find the "ms" settings in Spartacus? I don’t see it in mine, only Percentage upto 400% and Default, Heavy & Crazy presets?
Spartacus doesn’t have a default skin, so it takes the frame of its host – so you can see how mine looks (attached). Spart. has two controls: amount & length in ms. You have to toggle between them. Hope that helps…
Hi Modman,
See image below..
I am using the VST Winamp Bridge to run it with Breakaway: 🙂[attachment=0:hc3bop0u]Spartacus.JPG[/attachment:hc3bop0u]
You can pick either Amount or Length from the drop down list…
I had to e-mail Matthias to find this out as I couldn’t find it either! 😉
It’s confusing because when you select the drop down list, you can’t actually see Length there until you highlight it, but it’s there!
There you go! 8)Hope this helps,
Best regards,
Conor HylandKeith,
Can you tell me how you got Adapt-X to see VST plugins?
I downloaded it as I only had that basic interface as Conor has shown for Spartacus. I can only get it to show the basic installed DirectX plugins. I notice you have it showing your Voxengo VSTs as well as Spartacus.
The Adapt-X PDF file says it is for DirectX plugins.
Any clues?
Thanks,
ScottHi Coner & Lumper,
That is most helpful, thank you.
Turns out I had the ms set to 15 all this time…. 🙂
[quote author=”ScottyJames”]Keith,
Can you tell me how you got Adapt-X to see VST plugins?
The Adapt-X PDF file says it is for DirectX plugins.
Scott[/quote]
JesseG taught me this trick. (Credit where due, etc.) You’ll need DirectXer (http://tonewise.com/ ) It’s $44 & worth it. It’s a DirectX wrapper for VST plugs, so you "DirectXify" your VSTs, and then upon wrapping them, they will appear as a DirectX plug inside Adapt-X. It’s a two-stage process. Jesse also taught me to set Adapt-X to use only the 24-bit setting in Adapt-X for best resolution.
Works well for me on my XP and Windows Server 2003 machines.
Keith
It says "force 24bit" but what it’s actually increasing the internal resolution to is 64bit floating point math. So it sounds WAAAAAAY better that way. 😉 Plus there’s actual headroom above 0dBfs internally. Just make sure you don’t have that after the final plugin, or don’t overload any plugins that can’t input or output over 0dBfs. 😉
Keith,
[quote author=”lumper5″]You’ll need DirectXer (http://tonewise.com/ ) It’s $44 & worth it. It’s a DirectX wrapper for VST plugs, so you "DirectXify" your VSTs, and then upon wrapping them, they will appear as a DirectX plug inside Adapt-X. It’s a two-stage process. Jesse also taught me to set Adapt-X to use only the 24-bit setting in Adapt-X for best resolution.[/quote]Thanks for the fast response. I got DirectiXer and have now got it all set up and running. I have also set it to the Force 24 bit setting as suggested.
Jesse,
[quote author=”JesseG”]Plus there’s actual headroom above 0dBfs internally.[/quote]Clever! I think Roger Nichols is doing some of that in some of his plugins also. A bit of bit shifting. 🙂
[quote author=”JesseG”]Just make sure you don’t have that after the final plugin, or don’t overload any plugins that can’t input or output over 0dBfs. 😉[/quote]I’m not sure I inderstand that statement. Are you saying to have the Adapt-X/DirectXer combination plugins before the end of the DSP chain in Breakaway?
Thanks for your assistance gentlemen, I appreciate it.
Scott
I’m just saying not to overload (go over -0dBfs) any plugins that are not made to input or output that, and not to go over -0dBfs at the end of the chain, or else the output will clip cos it’s 16bits going back into Winamp 😉
Jesse,
Understood. 🙂
Thanks.
Edit: Keith, sorry this somewhat hijacked your topic. 😳
Scott
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