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Hi,
I’ve been demoing this product and I may add it’s fantastic, although I don’t have a 192khz soundcard, it runs into my stereo encoder and works brilliantly.
My question is, do I need to have a hardware limiter/compressor in the audio chain, in order to catch any spikes, whether that be from my mic which isn’t running through the breakaway software. However if I were to run the mic through the software as well as all audio would the limiter/compressor still be needed? Also does pre-emphasis need turning off if the transmission equipment has it.
Sorry for the dodgy questioning, i’m not the most technically minded person around.
Thanks.
might be a silly quiestion sorry… but …….
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Thanks 🙂
No, you don’t need a limiter before Breakaway, just make sure you don’t ever clip the input to your PC’s soundcard by allowing yourself plenty of headroom. Putting a limiter before the PC will not remove the likelihood of clipping as you then have to make sure you don’t clip the input to the limiter… at the end of the day, everything has a threshold at which you will clip/distort, you just have to make sure you never get there..
I don’t quite understand how the Mic is not going thru the processor, your mic goes thru the same mixer as your music right?, in which case it is going thru the breakaway processing, otherwise how does it get to the transmitter?
HTH..
Yorkie.Thanks, but my computer plays the music and runs breakaway this goes into a mixer and a mic goes into the mixer which goes into the transmitter, so only the music runs through breakaway. I could connect the output of the mixer to another computer and run breakaway on it, but my other computer isn’t powerfull enough.
[quote author=”uksoundz”]Thanks, but my computer plays the music and runs breakaway this goes into a mixer and a mic goes into the mixer which goes into the transmitter, so only the music runs through breakaway. I could connect the output of the mixer to another computer and run breakaway on it, but my other computer isn’t powerfull enough.[/quote]
You need to input from mixer to PC.. so.. run your music through a soundcard UNPROCESSED, and connect the mixer to the soundcard’s input and have Breakaway to process that from that input, then output to a OTHER soundcard (yes, you need 2 soundcards) which goes to where ever you broadcast.. if you only stream the output then you do not need another soundcard, although for monitoring it’s still recommended 😛
OOhhh, so you have the mic (the part that needs processing more than any other) going to the transmitter raw.. You really need to get that mic processed by Breakaway as that’s what it is for. I’d suggest maybe feeding the mic in the the PC’s soundcard (isolating it from the soundcard output by muting it in the playback mixer and checking it in the recording side) then use a simple program such as Leif’s free audio resampler program to combine the mic mix in with the audio stream from your playout software. It might be a little fiddly to set up in the first instance but once you get it going, it will work fine.
Yorkie.
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