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hello everyone, first post here, so be gentle please 😆
i used to run an fm station a couple years back, and recently ive been bitten by the bug again, so after checking out the tx gear is working fine, i looked at something for audio processing once again. i had used sound solution before i went off air the last time. it just about worked, not great though…….
so i had a look around and came across breakaway, gave it a go and it just blew me away. the clarity is unbelievable, no pumping or weird anomalies, just a wall of sound.
credit where its due, this is an excellent piece of work leif 😉at the moment, ive already got a full size rack pc, pentium d ht 3.4ghz based. is this cpu type ok? or would i be better off with a core2duo setup?
also, i have an nrg kitz stereo encoder, would breakaway give better separation than a standalone encoder from your experience? 50db would be the average right for a receiver? i do like how much control you have with breakaway though, and the mpx thats generated looks very clean and precise in comparison to the others….. so i guess its a combination of factors really rather than just separation alone…i just got an m-audio audophile card to test the mpx, but my tx spat the dummy of course (pll lock issue) so i wont be able to test it out for a while yet, but i have made a recording when on air of the breakaway vs orban 8500 (local big station) playing lady ga ga poker face…. ill upload it once i get back to the office… its an amazing difference!!!! i think it was the chr preset, but ill double check once i upload.
once again, great job with this software, you can expect an order from myself pretty soon leif!
derekps. the shift keys are broken on this keyboard, hence no capitals 😆 caps lock is way too much hassle…..
Thanks, Dee!
AT LEAST CAPS LOCK WASN’T BROKEN 🙂.
From the description, the CPU would have to be either Pentium-4 HT or a Pentium-D dual core. If it’s the former, BBP should run, but it may run pretty high cpu load. If it’s the latter, you shouldn’t have any problem — except for heat. Pentium-D runs really hot — 130W TDP! May be worth buying a Celeron E1400 and save on the electricity bill (and the environment).
An external stereo encoder could theoretically be just as accurate as the one inside BBP — but not better. The one in BBP is "textbook clean" — which is extremely easy to do in software, but near impossible to do in analog hardware. Unless you have a specific reason why you have to use an external one, just use the internal one 🙂.
If you want to compare off-the-air against other stations, take a look at MpxTool too! Another product of mine — indispensable for me at least. http://mpxtool.com
Best regards,
///Leif
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