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Leif, Keith and all developers of BBP:
We changed our main on-air processor to BBP yesterday. There are no words to describe such a processor. The competition noticed the change within 45 minutes of the swap. Some talents which were co-workers of our talents began asking about "what we did on our sound". Then a few hours later some stations began to try to catch up. Not a chance.
We decided to use the CHR preset. The 8200s tried to catch up, with no chance. The 8100s even with the XT2s didn’t stand a chance. One station which uses the 8100 tried to catch up, but they didn’t even get close. The only station that sounds a tad louder than ours is modulating @ 130-135% with a 8200 box. Unfair competition, I know. And illegal, as well !
Anyway, the modded M-Audio 192 with the newest BBP proved to be the best choice. Our 2300 was put aside and will be sold. There’s not point of having an almost brand new 2300 as a spare if, with the 2300 sale value I can purchase top-notch PCs with top-notch audio cards. We managed to get a thunderous bass and crisp highs, with no pumping and no distortion (at least noticeable). We still have a little hiss while on dead air, but far less than that annoying hiss produced by the Audigy 2ZS.
I want to thank all the developers for creating such a program. Even with a STL the audio is far better than the hardware boxes installed in our region.
I am planning to visit NAB 2010, and I hope to meet you guys there !
Cheers all
Ricardo !
[quote author=”Appie”]Have you try the New York preset ?[/quote]
Yes, I have tried that Appie, and it sounded great at home while preparing the right preset settings. I don’t know why it didn’t sound great on air, CHR sounded bolder and more appropriate to the type of material we broadcast.
I’ve tried CHR, Plutonium and New York, with the best results obtained using CHR.
LEIF
I got a call a few minutes ago from the on-air talent and he told me that the audio was kind of "skipping" like a scratched CD. I asked him to open the task manager and tell me the BBP processes memory usage values and CPU usage, and the CPU usage was 44 for the GUI instance (I presume) and 77 for the audio one, and memory were in the 17M / 20M ballpark. Interesting is that when I installed it yesterday the values I got were 0/44 for CPU and around the same values for both memory values.
I am not using Max Quality but Optimize CPU usage since our PC is not the best one – as I’ve told you, it’s a P4 2.8 HT with a i865 Mobo, 2 Gb RAM and Win XP SP1. The I/O are configured as below:
L/R input -> M-audio Delta AP 1/2 @ 192000 / 2 ch with KS
MPX output -> M-audio Delta AP 1/2 @ 192000 / 2 ch with KSI decided to use KS because they are more robust, according to the GUI tooltip and documentation.
I wonder if a fresh install of W2K will help reduce such an overload. BTW, will I have any type of issue when reactivating my BBP since it’s already activated on the XP OS ?
Thanks
Ricardo
Hi Ricardo!
If the CPU usage was 0 / 44 before, and 77 / 44 later then 0 (or 77) must be the GUI process, and 44 must be the audio process.
I’ve never ever heard of CPU usage in BBP going crazy like that. I do recommend a fresh install — it’s the first thing I’d try.
No problem with reactivation — just install and do it.
///Leif
And also use this:
http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml
and disable any device drivers that make that spike up. that can help a lot.
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