Windows Audio Compressor/Limiter?

[smoothjazz]

From the automation thread below, I'm very intrigued by the DirEttore program, but need to find a way to have the audio come out at one particular level. Does anyone know if a program exists that limits or compressors any audio from your computer to one particular level, so I'd be able to stream it at that? Thanks in advance. <P ID="signature">______________
Nick Langan
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[SamBuca]

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[TheGuyInTheRadio]

and if worse comes to worse, and you want to save the most amount of money as possible, use MP3Gain and normalize all of your audio. Yeah, its gimmicky, but it works...somewhat.

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[smoothjazz]

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That would be perfect but the only problem with that is my host only accepts Windows Media. I wish the Windows Media Encoder was more versatile. <P ID="signature">______________
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[amos]

like sam said, if you want a software processor get sound solutions.

i highly recommend it and also DirEttore, although right now i'm still live with winamp and the cross/fading plugin... i'll have direttore running soon, maybe this week.

whichever automation program you are using, line out to your mixer. from mixer out go back in through the line-in input on the sound card. then winamp running with the line in plugin grabbing that audio. get a DSP stacker program (many available) and put sound solution and then your shoutcast or simplecast (sam) DSP in.

if you later decide to add a hardware processor, instead of mixer out back into line-in, route mixer out into processing, processing out into sound card line-in, and remove sound solutions from the dsp stacker.

sound solution is an awesome, and free, program. the only reason i don't use it is i want my headphones to hear the processed audio in real time.

amos


> and if worse comes to worse, and you want to save the most
> amount of money as possible, use MP3Gain and normalize all
> of your audio. Yeah, its gimmicky, but it works...somewhat.
>
> > soundsolution.it
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>
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[someguy_pr]

You could try Sonos or MBL 4. If you download Virtual Audio Cables, you will be able to run separate inputs and outputs, and they are both stand-alone programs. I am not sure if they are better than Sound Solution, and I can't remember the author's site (for Sonos or MBL 4).

 

[Dogga]

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[jesseg]

> You could try Sonos or MBL 4. If you download Virtual Audio
> Cables, you will be able to run separate inputs and outputs,
> and they are both stand-alone programs. I am not sure if
> they are better than Sound Solution, and I can't remember
> the author's site (for Sonos or MBL 4).
>

MBL4 & SoundSolution are not really comparable, it's like comparing oranges, and orange trees. SS is a relatively complete processor for broadcasting from DAB to FM.

and Sonos is a scalable hardware media player system, unless you're thinking of something else than the popular company "Sonos".

For a simple non-gated AGC (auto gain control) i'de recommend checking out Raduga AGC ( http://www.raduga.net/download/raduga-agc-demo-1.00.exe ) which puts out fairly consistent levels, and doesn't gain-up too noticabley with default settings and -6db threshold.