Omnia1 FM Processor

[AndyWaldrop]

I'm considering buying one of these. Any of you folks heard anything, good or bad, about this unit? Do I need to have any processing ahead of it?

Thanks

[BobOnTheJob]

I've installed 2 5EX-HD+AM units & love 'em. And I've tweaked several of the current 6 band FM units...again, a class act. They have a feature called Phat Bass. In my opinion, it should be used sparingly as should the stereo expander. There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did. Dialing the phat bass to almost 0 cleaned it right up Having played with Optimod 8400's and Omnia's, if given the choice today, I would buy the Omnia. It has more high and low freq power handling capability than the 8400, is squeaky clean when the phat bass and stereo enhance are used sparingly and the sucker is LOUD. In none of the cases have I used any pre-processing.

[AndyWaldrop]

Wonderful! I appreciate the information.

[menotti1]

I agree with bobonthejob and predict the omnia one fm will sell like mink coats on dollar days.At around a 2500.00 street price it will be a bargain.i run the 6ex hd+fm and how Frank Foti gets the clarity out of the unit is amazing.Clear,Clean and Loud..

[Goran Tomas]

Frank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Omnia One for FM is shipping yet, therefore nobody could tried it and can't tell you much... As a matter of common business sense, I predict there will be a significant difference on-air between the top-of-the-range Omnia 6 and bottom-of-the-range Omnia One, as well as other more expensive models.

Your best bet is to wait for it to come out and as always - take it for a test drive along with the other similarly priced processors...


Regards,
Goran Tomas

[wgliradio]

There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did.

I wouldn't go by anything from a Rolls tuner, or any Rolls product.  If I were you I would replace that Rolls with anything if you are using it to monitor.  Even a broken down Technics analog tuner from the late 70's is better.

[BobOnTheJob]

There's a Rolls FM Tuner in the rack for monitoring and when the CHR pre-set is used, the low end audio from the Rolls is badly distorted, although it sounds OK on the headphone jack on the Omnia. My previous car radio also showed that distortion but not nearly as bad as the Rolls did.

I wouldn't go by anything from a Rolls tuner, or any Rolls product.  If I were you I would replace that Rolls with anything if you are using it to monitor.  Even a broken down Technics analog tuner from the late 70's is better.

I couldn't agree more...but these are KLOVE outlets and that is their standard monitor so I usually use the headphone jack on the Omnia. However, pushing the presets on the Rolls reveals which stations are using Omnia's with the Phat Bass engaged. It stands to reason that if the Rolls distorts on those signals, there have to be other equally poor receivers that do too. So in a preverted way, the Rolls actually reveals something that we need to be alert for (how poor quality receivers react to state of the art processing). Who'd ever have thought that a Rolls tuner would be uniquely qualified to do anything?

[menotti1]

What preset are you running? with your format ,phat bass would not be used much.download the warm and comtemp preset from the omnia site, increase bass alittle and you'll have a great sound for your format.

[BobOnTheJob]

What preset are you running? with your format ,phat bass would not be used much.download the warm and comtemp preset from the omnia site, increase bass alittle and you'll have a great sound for your format.

Still playing, but I took CHR, dialed out most of the phat bass & stereo enhance and adjusted the drive of the multibands for 5-10db gr on each during an 'average' song. Also turned the gating off on each band as the source material is very quiet & no sucking up results. EMF likes these things to be loud but non-irritating...a task the Omnia 6 handles with grace (pun intended)...

Side note...when I first posted on this thread, I missed the '1' on the Omnia1 title...so pardon the way I inadvertently led the topic astray.

[menotti1]

i would talk to Mark at Omnia.they have presets they could offer.i still think you are missing the boat by not downloading the warm comtemp off their site and adding some bass to it.what did the rockn roll pre sound like to you(the default preset)?