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My Sony WH-1000X M3 headphones held firm at 25Hz but my stock stereo in my car dropped out at around 40Hz. Fun test!

@ChiefMade The second is clip is in fact the Icom 7300. I kept the same recording for both.

@@KP68videogates ok

Hey bud. Ya, CB receivers can be hit or miss. I have a stock Cobra 25LTD Classic that has amazing receive audio.

Ha ha. Ya, it was modded by someone else. I got it in a gear swap with a friend. 73s right back my friend!

Thanks! I'm very happy with the way it performs.

Lol. Thanks my friend!

Thank you sir, that means a lot to me. I know I can be, how shall I say, an odd creative character lol. But at least I'm open an honest and try to put a smile on peoples faces in the weary world we live in.

Ya, I thought so too. I think I had the mic gain a bit high but still sounded great.

They are very close. If you haven't done so, listen to them with good headphones or something with good bass response.

You got it my friend. I'll try to get to it this weekend.

@@KP68videogates looking forward to it, thanks!

My channel got taken down but, maybe ill start posting a few videos again

@@GettowayDriverSoCal That's a bummer. I'd love to see some new videos from you. And by the way, here ya go bud. czcams.com/video/ILpsXS15im0/video.html

@@KP68videogates awesome, going to check it out

You're welcome and thanks. Everything you see here in Thetis is the same for the Hermes BTW.

I'm so glad you enjoy them and God bless right back!

Ha ha!

Hey 131 hope all is well down your way. It does make it easy. Most of those pre-set profiles sound good they way they are. Excellent for folks who don't want to start from scratch. Starting from scratch can be quite daunting for anyone new to audio processing. I wish I had this years ago when I got back into radio.

Yes sir! Everything about Thetis is phenomenal. Maybe I'll make one more video on a more realistic AM band pass, like 5kc. I'm trying to get more people interested in Thetis, ANAN, and Hermes.

Hello Doug! Thank you sir.

Thank you sir. As I type this I am setting up for my next video. The G2 with that RE27ND you have is an awesome combination!

Right! I didn't expect that.

Thank you sir. I appreciate that.

Hello sir. I wonder if a setting must have been unchecked in the update. If you have receive audio in either of the sideband modes, toggle between sideband and AM and watch your screen for any changes. That happened to me once. For some reason my VAC was OFF in AM mode and ON in sideband. My eye noticed the change when toggling between AM and sideband.

@@KP68videogates Will check on that. Thanks.

Thanks Truck! Thetis and Cakewalk is an killer combo.

Sir, you speak the truth! Amazing software. My greatest respects to those who constantly develop it.

Thanks bud. It's nice to get back to basics. Next on the agenda is to make slight adjustments to this profile for local AM talking.

No problemo bud! Conditions were finicky with that fading rolling across. You can see it in the spectral display but especially in the waterfall. I had to chuckle seeing your signal booming at 20dB but the rest of the band was flat line lol. Love that reverb and always have BTW. Very unique sounding. That swang is doing its thang! Sounding great as usual 131.

No problem my friend. Ya, at 15-20 over that's when you can hear all of the fine details of your audio and anyone else's audio. And yes, you sound very sweet! You got it dialed in for sure.

Hello Tony. I use a single Sonitus compressor near the beginning of my audio chain and a Sonitus multiband (5 bands) near the very end of my audio chain. Both compressors I use very sparingly. Once in a while I will use the Thetis compressor and that as well I use very sparingly at around 2dB.

Nice on the AM. AM is where my heart is at. If I can remember, I'll do a video on how I set my modulation percentages in Thetis. Thanks for watching!

@@KP68videogates That would be great! The Hermes is picking up interest from AMI with several of us using them and showing the boat anchor crowed that they do indeed make a nice AM radio. My setup is very simple with the Hermes into a XPA125B amp and just using the built in Thetis EQ (that I am still fiddling with).

@@JReed305 Yes indeed they make a nice AM radio. I have heard some operators using nothing but Thetis audio tools (EQ and CFC) and they sound great. Although I'll always use my Cakewalk by Bandlab audio processing, I too am fiddling with the Thetis audio tools. Some fellas use a combination of both.

Lamborghini.

Lol

@@Walker_328 Lol, I couldn't resist.

Made me laugh too much out loud 👍🏼

It sure does. Definitely stands out from the rest.

Ha ha! Well hopefully I'll be around for a while. I'm still screwing things up lol. I guess if I screw things up a little less each time I'm on the right track.

10kc SSB on a regular basis? My man, I'm coming out to hang out with you guys! I'm packing my things and headed your way! For the 11 meter fellas, roll the VFO to the very top of a CB channel, switch to LSB, and open up TX filter to 10kc. 10kc of audio all on 1 CB channel.

@@KP68videogates Hey, we'd love to have ya. Talking between you and me on 10m would be a rarity as we're too close but sometimes it does happen briefly.

No I haven't. I don't expect it anytime soon. From what I hear it's one delay after another at Apache Labs. It's been 5 months so far. Oh well, at least I'm in no hurry. I sure will make a video on it soon as it comes in and I'm looking forward to it. Thank you for stopping by sir.

Thank you!

Yes sir. Yet another thing great about Thetis is that if something isn't quite right for you or if something is seemingly awry, there is a high probability that there is a setting that can be changed or adjusted.

Hello sir. I noticed that only occasionally and I also noticed it when my AGC gain slider was set high (at or below the band noise floor) where I would be receiving a high amount of white noise while trying to talk to a distant station whos signal was mixed in with the noise floor. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until this weekend when it was bothering the crap out of me lol. Not all Thetis users may experience this because of the many ways receive audio can be routed. As far as if it was always present or not, I cannot be sure. There could be a setting in Thetis to mute the audio faster on key up but since the RF delay worked for me, I did not investigate the matter any further.

Hello Ronald. There are probably other ways to fix that but for me this works great. Thank you sir for stopping by.

Thank you sir. In this profile I used a noise gate, Sonitus 6 band parametric EQ's, a couple of Cakewalk mastering plugins, and some compression. I tossed it all together rather quickly for my friend so he could have a starting point and to get on the air right away. And yes, the Heremes lite 2 is and Thetis is amazing!

That puts a smile on my face and thank you so kindly! 🙂

Thanks 👍

Yes sir it is! Thank you for stopping by.

That's a neat idea. Same here with just my own. I built everything from a 1 pill up to this 16 pill and experimented with different biasing schemes. And BTW, I just checked out your You Tube channel. Very cool👍. I subscribed

Thanks bud. The skin isn't quite finished yet, but not bad so far. Glad you got the update to work. I have a lot of patience with many things but when it comes to computers not doing what they should, I tend to loose my frigging mind lol. Thanks for the suggestion on the OL SDR. I'll check it out.

It sure did! Sounding fantastic.

The software is called Thetis and it needs to be used in conjunction with a ham radio transceiver such as Apache Labs SDRs or the Hermes lite 2. The Apache Labs radios are very expensive but the Hermes lite 2 is very inexpensive. As far as receive only SDRs go, I have used the RSP2 and the free software I used with it was called SDR console. The RSP2 is discontinued but they still have similar models. Concerning all of the digital capabilities you mentioned, I do not know since I never gravitated towards that aspect of radio. Here are some of the links: apache-labs.com/ www.makerfabs.com/hermes-lite-2.html www.sdrplay.com/ www.sdr-radio.com/console

@@KP68videogates thank you

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