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Omnia1 FM Processor

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AndyWaldrop

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I'm considering buying one of these. Any of you folks heard anything, good or bad, about this unit? Do I need to have any processing ahead of it?

Thanks
 
I've installed 2 5EX-HD+AM units & love 'em. And I've tweaked several of the current 6 band FM units...again, a class act. They have a feature called Phat Bass. In my opinion, it should be used sparingly as should the stereo expander. There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did. Dialing the phat bass to almost 0 cleaned it right up Having played with Optimod 8400's and Omnia's, if given the choice today, I would buy the Omnia. It has more high and low freq power handling capability than the 8400, is squeaky clean when the phat bass and stereo enhance are used sparingly and the sucker is LOUD. In none of the cases have I used any pre-processing.
 
I agree with bobonthejob and predict the omnia one fm will sell like mink coats on dollar days.At around a 2500.00 street price it will be a bargain.i run the 6ex hd+fm and how Frank Foti gets the clarity out of the unit is amazing.Clear,Clean and Loud..
 
Frank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Omnia One for FM is shipping yet, therefore nobody could tried it and can't tell you much... As a matter of common business sense, I predict there will be a significant difference on-air between the top-of-the-range Omnia 6 and bottom-of-the-range Omnia One, as well as other more expensive models.

Your best bet is to wait for it to come out and as always - take it for a test drive along with the other similarly priced processors...


Regards,
Goran Tomas
 
BobOnTheJob said:
There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did.
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I wouldn't go by anything from a Rolls tuner, or any Rolls product. If I were you I would replace that Rolls with anything if you are using it to monitor. Even a broken down Technics analog tuner from the late 70's is better.
 
wgliradio said:
BobOnTheJob said:
There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did.
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I wouldn't go by anything from a Rolls tuner, or any Rolls product. If I were you I would replace that Rolls with anything if you are using it to monitor. Even a broken down Technics analog tuner from the late 70's is better.
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I couldn't agree more...but these are KLOVE outlets and that is their standard monitor so I usually use the headphone jack on the Omnia. However, pushing the presets on the Rolls reveals which stations are using Omnia's with the Phat Bass engaged. It stands to reason that if the Rolls distorts on those signals, there have to be other equally poor receivers that do too. So in a preverted way, the Rolls actually reveals something that we need to be alert for (how poor quality receivers react to state of the art processing). Who'd ever have thought that a Rolls tuner would be uniquely qualified to do anything?
 
What preset are you running? with your format ,phat bass would not be used much.download the warm and comtemp preset from the omnia site, increase bass alittle and you'll have a great sound for your format.
 
menotti1 said:
What preset are you running? with your format ,phat bass would not be used much.download the warm and comtemp preset from the omnia site, increase bass alittle and you'll have a great sound for your format.
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Still playing, but I took CHR, dialed out most of the phat bass & stereo enhance and adjusted the drive of the multibands for 5-10db gr on each during an 'average' song. Also turned the gating off on each band as the source material is very quiet & no sucking up results. EMF likes these things to be loud but non-irritating...a task the Omnia 6 handles with grace (pun intended)...

Side note...when I first posted on this thread, I missed the '1' on the Omnia1 title...so pardon the way I inadvertently led the topic astray.
 
i would talk to Mark at Omnia.they have presets they could offer.i still think you are missing the boat by not downloading the warm comtemp off their site and adding some bass to it.what did the rockn roll pre sound like to you(the default preset)?
 
Goran Tomas said:
Frank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Omnia One for FM is shipping yet, therefore nobody could tried it and can't tell you much... As a matter of common business sense, I predict there will be a significant difference on-air between the top-of-the-range Omnia 6 and bottom-of-the-range Omnia One, as well as other more expensive models.

Your best bet is to wait for it to come out and as always - take it for a test drive along with the other similarly priced processors...


Regards,
Goran Tomas
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Yup, you are wrong. It is shipping...has been for about a month.

You'll be surprised how well this little beast stands up. :)

-Frank Foti
 
I heard one on the air about two weeks ago (can't tell you where ;) ) and it sounded wonderful. Of course, as with any processing product, a lot of the sound depends on the skill of the user, but I can tell you that it was very clean.
 
Just priced out the Omnia 1, it is considerably cheaper than the Omnia3 Turbo.

How does the Omnia 1 compare to the .03Turbo?? From what I can tell 4 bands of AGC and Limiting, Bass clipper, and a smaller chasis.

Why is the Omnia 1 so much cheaper than the 03Turbo??
 
My guess is a drop in manufacturing costs going to a 1RU form factor and a much lower parts count (new high power DSP architecture)

As to how it would compare - it should be better in every way.... I'd expect we're looking at a phaseout of the 03 Series processors in the medium term in favour of the new "One" platform (once the AM software has been completed!)
 
That's what I figured. We're running a few 03 Turbos and have had nothing but great luck with them. I may try to sneak an Omnia 1 in to the budget request for next Fiscal Year and rotate it through the cluster to see where it sounds best.
 
I think you will be very happy with the Omnia One. I have had one for over a month now and you get your milage out of it. Very impressive, I do like the 4 band design.
 
I really do appreciate everyone's input on this processor.


Frank,

You and I have a mutual friend here in Houston. I believe he may have already contacted you on my behalf. I hope to talk to you soon.

Thanks
 
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