• Join Us |
  • |
  • Sign in with:

Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Aug 10, 2005 7:18pm PDT
Related Topics – Wack News

It seems odd.. but if Maarten, Chris and myself are all out having dinner the website doesnt seem to update. Confusing.

- Real life Paperboy! - Spend more money on her - Blockbuster hurting - Video game music is hot
Lastly, there's a reason red headed step children get smacked around the most!


Read all the News


« Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »
  • #802
    Refresh Thread
    By: Zero|DPX x
    Reply
    KOCK (Shack Radio) DJs!

    I have a tutorial valuable enough for its own root post. We can refer back to this later when linking "how to be a DJ" stuff. That tutorial is: Successfully talking over your stream using your mic

    That's right! You, too, can say annoying things like "I love the cock!" just like real DJs. As long as you have a Mic. This tutorial assumes you already know how to "DJ" normally for the shack stream.

    Step 0: You should probably do this before playing your set
    Step 1: Open your SHOUTcast source DSP settings. Go to the "input" tab.
    Step 2: Change the input from "Winamp (recommended)" to "Soundcard Input"
    Step 3: In the "soundcard mixer" settings, you should have Mic Input set to "microphone" unless you're going to be running a real mic into your line in or something.
    Step 4: Change the four sliders as follows:
    Music Level -1 dB -- or whatever your wave playback level normally is
    BG Music Level -11 dB -- should be AT LEAST 10 dB lower than "Music level"
    Mic Level -1 dB -- prolly should be same as wave
    Fade Time: 1000 ms -- can adjust for desired effect
    Step 5: hit the "Open mixer" button to pull up your soundcard mixer
    Step 6: while here in the "playback" settings, unmute your "microphone" playback (that's right, local echo it), but set the volume to minimum. (If you're using a line input instead of a mic, unmute your "line in" playback.)
    Step 7: Open the "recording" settings for your soundcard. Look for a record input marked "Stereo Mix", "What U Hear", or "Wave Mix" (not "Wave"). Select this input for recording.
    Step 8: Turn this record input up close to all the way, say -1 dB (half a notch from the top or so)
    Step 9: Close your sound card mixers.
    Step 10: Find any program that will make noise, like IM programs or something, and silence them. Seriously. You can't have any external programs making noises through your soundcard because we will hear everything.
    Step 11: Check to make sure your encoder hasn't changed its bitrate -- for some reason Jumperus' did. Switch to a different encoder number, then back, and make sure it's still set at the 96 kbit (or whatever) bit rate you wanted.

    OK, you are ready to go! When you play your stream, winamp will play through your soundcard, and your soundcard will "record" the stereo mix it's going to send to your speakers. That recording is what gets sent upstream to us. Now when you hold down push to talk, over a period of (Fade Time) ms, your "wave" playback (the music) will fade from "Music Level" down to "BG Music Level", while your mic playback will fade up from -inf dB to "Mic Level". You can talk and it will get mixed in with the music. Then release the button and the reverse fade will happen.

    Warning! We will hear everything your soundcard does! IM noises, windows sound scheme stuff, whatever. You can use this to your advantage, however: playing a movie in your movie player will still send it through your winamp stream (although of course we won't see ID3 tags...).

    Good luck, have fun! See what sort of talking is annoying and what is good!
    Aug 11, 2005 12:00am PDT

    Thread Truncated. Click to see all 4 replies.

« Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »
New Comment | Back to Top