Hi, Brandon: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:08:17 -0600, you wrote:
>1. Does the equalizer in my winamp effect the stream? for example if i've >got full bass and trebble as a preset loaded and enabled, will that reflect >on the stream output or does it bypass the equalizer? What you hear is definitely what you stream, and at lower bit rates this can be quite noticeable, especially on the high end of equalization. >2. if I want to have some sort of music playing while I'm broadcasting, how >do I go about doing that, and which DSP plugins support it? The DSP plug-in is not involved in what you want to do. The sound card, however, is. There are two ways you can go about this: One is to source everything externally--recordings and talking all go through a mixer, which is plugged into your sound card. Your sound card is configured to record from the line-in jack, and the rest you already know. The second solution is to use multiple instances of Winamp. The first will use an additional plug-in to the Shoutcast DSP, an input plug-in to collect audio from all your sound card's sources. This is called either a linerec or linein plug-in. By the way, all audio processing is done in this instance of Winamp because this one's the broadcast instance. Additional instances of Winamp (yes, there can be more than one additional) are used to play all sound files. For instance, you might use one instance of Winamp to play music, one to play drop-in sound effects, one to play commercials or promotional announcements, or you can do it all with just the second instance. Connect a microphone to your sound card either directly or through a mixer and you're ready to go. The mixer approach is better because you can control the microphone more easily than by having to go into the property sheet of your sound card to turn it off when you're not speaking, but that's doable too if that's the way you want to do things. >3. how should I set up my sound cards? I've got a USB headset with a mic and >the default soundcard in my pc, what do i need to have coming out of which >card if I've got jaws and winamp running? This is an excellent question and probably one of the most misunderstood in this whole process. If you're going to use multiple instances of Winamp, you must either have hardware speech or at least two sound cards. This is because when setting up the sound card for Winamp, you must go into the property sheet for that sound card, go into recording controls, and check the mixer option. Once you do that, everything that comes through your sound card--music, your voice, speech--will be broadcast, and that's obviously not what you want, at least not in the speech department anyway. You said you have two sound cards, which is tantamount to having hardware speech. My preference would be to use the built-in or onboard sound card for speech and your USB device as the broadcast sound card. How to get this working is a bit tricky in Winamp, because it depends on which line-recording plug-in you're going to be using. The syntax of the "open URL" command is just a bit different for the two plug-ins, so you'll have to read your documentation carefully, or come back here and tell us which plug-in you decided to use, and someone can tel you the right syntax to select your second sound card for broadcasting. >4. What DSP plugin do you people recommend and why? I'm an old Shoutcast man myself, but lots of folks love the SAM Encoders package from Spacial Audio. The drawback with the SAM Encoders package is, you only get four hours' broadcast time on it before you have to restart it when it's in unregistered shareware mode. It costs about forty dollars, but there ain't hardly nothin' it can't do--MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media, maybe even AAC and/or AAC-plus by now, I'm not up on the latest-and-greatest developments with this software, but I'm sure others can tell you more about it. Oddcast is another good free one, but it's not a DSP plug-in. Rather, it's a stand-alone program which you run first, connect up to your desired server, then you start your Winamps and you're on your way. I hope this has been helpful to you. C'mon back with any more questions you may have. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
