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I’ve been doing a little fooling around with BA Live, and turns out, one of the presets is exactly what I’m trying to achieve … however, it’s a preset that’s not available in BBP (which is what I purchased.)
The preset is "Microphone." I don’t know if it’s the 4 bands, or the nice flat treble response, or what… but it’s real nice for our format.
Can I tweak one of the BBP presets to act like "Microphone?"
If not, I guess I’ll just buy BA Live… but first things first!
I’ve been playing a bit with "Reference Classical" but it seems to be lacking the "oompth" that I like in the "Microphone" preset. I think it has something to do with the fact that "Microphone" has one of the wideband compressors AFTER the AGC. "Reference Classical" does not have this, to my knowledge.
Looks like I’m going to be buying BA Live. I wish I would have tried "Live" before buying BBP. Although I love tooling around with BBP, there are simply controls on it that I’d never use in webcasting. (And, turns out, "Live" has a preset that will work awfully nice for our station — but that preset is not available in BBP.)
The reasoning behind why I like 4-bands: It seems like all the testing I’ve been doing with any 4-band preset keeps the treble in check. Some of the 6-band and 7-band presets seem to have a lot of treble boost, which is a no-no on a station like ours that plays music from vinyl, reel to reel tape, CDs, cassettes, plus obviously various computer files.
"Reference Classical" technically sounds REALLY nice with older and newer recordings, but again, just a touch too weak for what we’re looking for. The more I play with BA Live, "Microphone" is indeed the right sound for us. I come back to it again and again.
There’s also a Noise Reduction feature that you can enable that is a downward expander to help tone down some tape hiss or other noise.
Hi Aaron!
You sure tend to like the strange presets 🙂. The Mic presets are really designed to be a standalone mic processor, processing only a single microphone. If you like it for music though, that’s great! However, it wouldn’t make sense to add it to BBP since it’s not a low latency processor, which precludes using it for microphones, so Breakaway Live is probably the best bet.
///Leif
I know. 😀
It’s really because of our format, though. I certainly like using the other presets for my own personal listening (usually Smooth Jazz) but the "popular" presets (Plutonium, Ref Heavy, etc) just don’t seem to work real well with our station’s format. Usually what ends up happening: The station will sound really really good for two or three songs, and then a couple tunes will pop in that, for some reason, have a lower perceived loudness. The meters are all peaking where they should be, but the song just sounds thin. I’ll have to e-mail you a short clip of the old WRJQ. I can e-mail you a file of a song straight off an LP, and also e-mail a file of that song when it was played on WRJQ. The on-air would actually be from an AM radio broadcast, but who knows, maybe you’d be able to think of a couple ideas I could try.
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