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I am sure I may have raised this topic quite some time ago when I was trying out Breakaway. It’s been some time and I’ve just installed the latest version and found some new meters and options. With the loudness meter on the input some of my music will come to -12 at peaks, just on the tip of the Red area, most of it sitting between -24 and -12, the Green and Yellow areas. At the -12 peaks the little "Peak" meters go to 0.
I have a -6db attenuator and the Impact/Clunk plugin. I don’t get any overloading as all the meters never flash Red. Should I install an additional attenuator plugin to bring the music that is showing up to -12 down a bit?
If so, how does this affect the sound of the output, as the AGC will bring it back up the processor. I don’t understand what is actually achieved bringing the input down just to keep the loudness meter on the input in the Green area.
I haven’t come to terms with the settings in the Stereo Enhancer yet. What is Solo Band: Off?
Happy holidays to you all,
Scott
I’ve ended up turning the Volume Control (applet) on the Breakaway Pipeline 1 down so that the Loudness Meter now averages -20 with the peak meters showing around the -6 mark. Seems to work but I am occasionally hearing dropped buffers.
I noticed Breakaway now goes to Mono after about an hour in demo mode.
Scott
[quote author=”ScottyJames”]I noticed Breakaway now goes to Mono after about an hour in demo mode.[/quote]Cancel that remark. In haste to make a rough playlist I dragged a bunch of songs in from an Oldies (60s) category and 5 of them in a row were mono! No wonder the Stereo Enhancer stopped enhancing, there was nothing to enhance.
I discovered my stupidy when after about 12 minutes the stereo image scope began to dance again. 😳
Is the Solo Band: switch suppose to go into any other position other than Off?
Scott
Hi Scott!
The input meters have two different meters integrated. The bars are ITU BS.1770 standard loudness meters, and the smaller peak indicators above are.. well.. peak indicators. These are colour coded differently.
The colour coding of the bars depend on what ITU Ref Level you’ve set. This slider also adjusts some internal core parameters to account for the different input levels. If you’re into the red, it means the input is hotter than expected, but as long as you’re not clipping (red flashing meters), it’s fine. It’s meant to be used an easy-to-read level guide.
The peak indicators have a different colour scale, and it’s also meant to be a guide. Flash red/white means overload — if you ever see that, that means you ran out of headroom, which really shouldn’t have to happen. If it does, lower your input level, and then lower ITU Ref Level to match, to give yourself extra peak headroom.
Indeed it doesn’t distort just because the ITU meter is in the red area — it’s just an indicator. What you achieve by having more consistent input levels is that you can then use less processing and still have consistency.
Although the meter is nice, its utility as an input meter is questionable, as it’s unlikely that you see it while standing at the console. That’s why Breakaway RTA exists — the same meter in a free, light-weight format which you could run on your studio computer to give your DJs an easy to read true loudness meter. For example.
///Leif
Leif,
Thanks for the information.
I will have an opportunity this coming week to do a demonstration of BBP to some of the "powers" that matter, for a new acquisition. I just want to make sure I understand what I am doing. 😕 🙂
Just because I really love it, the sound, the software concept and support aspects doesn’t mean they’ll listen to an old jock who’s been there too long. 😆 I’ll let the output of the software do the work as the techies in the network know I love it.
I’ll just make sure I have no mono tracks in the demo and they don’t see the Solo Band switch as no matter what I do it doesn’t do anything.
Scott
Ah, forgot to answer that.
The Solo Band switch allows you to audition the 5 band crossover, to get a feel for where the band splits are. The normal position is Off — the others are only for testing.
It’s a slider, not a button — adjust it like all the other sliders. When the stereo enhancer is done, you should definitely hear a difference 😉.
///Leif
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