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Thanks to Ariane

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jammyjii

Hi group,

I'm a very new user of Ariane Sequel and after two days must say that this is a great product! We have a national radio channel and after suggesting of this group I bought a new one to studio end. That makes its job perfectly! Our sound changed totally to more open and large. And that "matrix" -mode is great. Now we can create a little bit of larger stereo image in our sound. We have many processors at the each transmitters end: there is Orbans, DSP-Xs, Aphexs, Inovonics, Omnias and so on and all of those sounds great after this pre-processor.

Now I must say I love the Ariane :) Thanks to developer team of Ariane!

How about the DSPXtreme; is there Ariane Leveler included or not? It'd be nice to test that product too. But if there is Ariane too, then there is two levellers in the chain...
 
No Ariane in the Extreme, But hey after your great testimony maybe David will give you a free Ariane or at least mention you in his next ad. You did good..congrats.
 
I wrote an article that was published in Radio World about 6 years ago on the Ariane....and I never got a freebie! ;D
 
Well, that's because you are not JammyJ triple i..(ha) I could not finish all of his post.My BS detector kept going off.(maybe it's the battery ha)Rock on Sgeirk
 
jammyjii said:
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Now I must say I love the Ariane :) Thanks to developer team of Ariane!
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Thanks for the kudos! We all worked hard to create and promote this "no-sound sound," and responses like this are deeply appreciated.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line.

Kind Regards,
David
 
Re: Thanks to

OK Here goess nothing....

David, could you please hand out some free Ariane units to all of us? We'll exchange it with good writeups of the product! ;D

:)
 
David Reaves said:
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line.
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busyradioguy said:
OK Here goess nothing....

David, could you please hand out some free Ariane units to all of us? We'll exchange it with good writeups of the product! ;D

:)
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Wait a minute! That wasn't the kind of question I was expecting!!
:D
Kind Regards,
David
 
jammyjii said:
How about the DSPXtreme; is there Ariane Leveler included or not? It'd be nice to test that product too. But if there is Ariane too, then there is two levellers in the chain...
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Like said before no ariane leveling in the Xtreme (yet). And the agc that is included can easely be fully disabled in the menu (at least in the beta release I should say).
 
Jammy, Some of these guys are just having fun with you.Everybody knows the virtues of the Ariane.There is nothing like it..
 
I've heard rave reviews about these devices, but would something like this be effective in digital broadcasting? I thought about buying one.
 
Absolutely. In fact, I feel it's more important than ever before. The Ariane has so many uses:

keep audio in a sweet spot before a delay-box
keep audio in a sweet spot before a digital processor
keep audio in a sweet spot before a digital STL....

It has great applications for streaming, too. I love the fact that it's a matrix processor...so you can fine tune the l-r and get very crazy very quickly and tweak out your stereo image...for betterment or detriment...your call.
 
You forgot #3: Overdo it to the extent the result is hammered dogstix. Somehow, I don't think there's been one you couldn';t overdo since the 8000 Optimod. And you could overdo it, but you really had to work at it.

If I needed a good leveller, it would be on the short list to try. And, given the very high LRL count, the program folks love them.

The only thing perceived as having greater value thatn a high LRL count is a color video display. If Orban or Foti would include a couple of pron clips to play on the video panels, they wouldn't be able to build the things fast enough.
 
littlejohn said:
You forgot #3: Overdo it to the extent the result is hammered dogstix. Somehow, I don't think there's been one you couldn';t overdo since the 8000 Optimod. And you could overdo it, but you really had to work at it.
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"Hammering" is not in the Ariane vocabulary. ;)
IMHO, the serious hammering can only be accomplished when you do peak processing. That simply is less an option with an RMS processor such as the Ariane, and the Sequel has only a safety peak limiter. Notwithstanding, its RMS process itself gets turned off at every possible opportunity to do so.

If you A/B'ed an Ariane's output and an Optimod 8000 output, both set to their extreme, I'm pretty sure you'd hear the Optimod first. But to be fair, that's because the 8000's doing AGC *and* pre-emphasis processing, a hurdle the Ariane wasn't designed to jump.

The worst you can do with an Ariane is use it to to make the *following* processor put the hammer down.
Then all bets are off.
:)

Kind Regards,
David
 
>The worst you can do with an Ariane is use it to to make the *following* processor put the hammer down.
Then all bets are off.

What I meant. Didn't express myself well.

Unfortunately, there's always someone out there willing to misuse a box.

I have hopes for HD though... processing won't overcome noise or run the m,od meter up. Pick it up enough to overcome road noise on low passages, add 'stationality' if it's demanded, and let it run nicely.

The problem is, the switch from HD-1 to analog. Currently most folks (us included) set the HYD to duplicate the analog to the degree possible, to minimize the shift. More power = fewer shifts, I'm for it.
 
I realize most of the major players make an audio processor for hd. Would it be advisable to just use something like the Adriane or would it also need another processor after it for HD?
 
It really depends what you want from the HD. And that is probably format driven and to a degree market driven - how many receivers are out there in your maket. The noise floor is absolute. The fidelity is excellent, although splitting the stream up for more formats reduces the fidelity quickly. The current thought is make it mimic the analog so the shift isn't too onerous. One of our outlets has a smooth jazz format, the HD sounds really nice.
A bit of AGC to keep the level up. Whatever 'stationality' you want to add via limiting or frequency tailoring. And let it run.
One problem I find is radios with different levels out of the analog and digital detectors.
 
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