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I’m using Breakaway Broadcast with my New Age station and have been experimenting with settings. Contrary to popular belief, New Age music isn’t all ‘snooze’ level 😆 and the Classical setting in BBP doesn’t do it for me. Currently I have the following (maybe weird) settings:
Cleveland
Final Drive: +1
Range,Power,Speed :50
Bass Cut: -10
Bass Shape: 0
Pre-Emp: 25us1db attenuator
Impact/Clunk: Clunk 1/Slam 2
Bass EFX: 3I broadcast at 128kbps. Could Leif and/or others give a listen and offer suggestions? I’m a Live365 station, so unfortunately you need to go here to listen :
http://www.live365.com/stations/newagecelticmusic?play
or, probably better, go to my web site and click on the play button on the Live365 widget: http://www.newagecelticmusic.comThanks!
I’m using Sam Broadcaster 4.3.6, though if I can get the title streaming issue with Live365 straightened out I may switch to OtsAv.
Howdy!
Not bad, not bad at all. That’s seriously fat sound for a new age station 🙂.
It might be a bit over the top though for me though. It sounded great until some drums kicked in — it got pretty squashed. It’s clean (no distortion), but there’s also no dynamics left. Have you tried just plain reference settings?
Bass-EFX is probably a good thing, but Impact/Clunk probably does more harm than good on this content, since there aren’t really many transients (drums) to begin. Impact/Clunk helps drums punch through, but if you had more a less pushed preset (such as reference settings) then you wouldn’t need the plug-in to begin with, since the drums would have actual, real headroom.
If reference settings isn’t loud enough, you should be able to turn up the final drive 1 or 2dB, although you might still need impact/clunk then.
Overall, nice job though! Other than the overly processed preset, it sounds like you’re doing everything right.
Best,
///LeifAddendum: Tubular bells is on! Nice. But hey, you’ve gotta hear the 2003 remake. It sounds incredible.
Appreciate it, Leif!
I’ve removed the Impact/Clunk. Does this sound better or do you still think I should go with just one of the reference settings and up the final drive?
Yeah, I think Tubular Bells is great – I will have to check out the 2003 remake – as you noticed, the one playing is the original 😀
I think the impact/clunk was probably the lesser of the problems.. Admit it, you like it this loud, don’t you? 🙂
///Leif
Well, not really …. just trying to find a good setting … now on reference classical with +2 Final Drive …
Well, a little loud is nice 😆
I heard that switch. 🙂 Got much quieter, but that’s what volume controls are for, and right now there’s really no high-end to fill up the waveform, so i’d say it’s working correctly.
I’m still listening. Let’s see what happens when things kick in again.
Reference Settings colours the sound more than Reference Classical (i.e. adds bass/treble) which you may also like.
///Leif
Which reference settings would you suggest I try?
Oops – put it on Reference Settings
Right now the actual level is about -3. I’m thinking the drums will fill up that headroom once they kick in.. It may be safe to turn up the final drive a bit though, since most of your stuff doesn’t have that much drums to begin with, right?
Edit: turns out there are no drums in the original Tubular Bells at all. Man, you’ve gotta hear the remake!
Apparently, Mike Oldfield was never satisfied with the original Tubular Bells release, but he was stuck in a contract and couldn’t remake it. That contract expired in ’02 or so, and lo and behold, in ’03 he remade it. He did a heck of a job too.
Man, that kinda rings a bell for myself, OctiMax vs Breakaway 😀.
///Leif
Got the PM 😀 !
I’ve just put Final Drive up to 2 … we’ll see how that goes. Sometimes you can have a lot of drums – there’s a lot of different types of New Age music where drums are actually prominent.
Right now it is reference settings with Final Drive 2 – sound better?
Again, thanks – and BPP is just absolutely amazing – I will be sure to mention it to the live broadcasters I know!
Hey, where’s your "L/R Output Level" set? It looks like it’s set to -2 or -3 now. Let me see if I can get a screenshot for you.
///Leif
It looks like you are hitting the clippers on peaks (which is fine in BBP!) but then attenuating too much afterwards.
The audio sounds awesome now — but could be louder with no penalty!
///Leif
Hmm … using the Reference Settings with Final Drive +2 … what else should I check for settings (kinda a noob when it comes to this).
Oops, I take that back. Next song sounds awful:
That could be the original though. Tya – Nonamata / Long Ago. It’s probably ruined on the CD. 😥
Check on the "Settings" page! There’s a control labeled L/R Ref Level. Where is it set now?
///Leif
Looks like it is -3db …
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