How much time delay does my Omnia have? (not counting the Diversity Delay in the EXi styles)

How much time delay does my Omnia have? (not counting the Diversity Delay in the EXi styles)

For the original Omnia.FM/HOT, Omnia-3, Omnia-5EX, Omnia-6:  The short answer is "Not enough to drive your DJ's crazy!"

We have measured the delay from the input to any output at approximately 9 ms on the Omnia-6 EX. (the Omnia-3 and OmniaONE will be somewhat less and the Omnia-6 EXi slightly more) This is enough for a slight voice-character coloration to be audible to the person speaking, but not enough to be a problem for talent monitoring off the air.

After adjusting this setting, most talent gets used to the "new sound" within a few breaks.</p>

Note: If there is additional delay added to the air chain, such as from a Digital STL (especially a codec based STL), the cumulative delay may become excessive and cause discomfort for the on-air talent. Real-world tests have determined that a slight echo may begin to be heard at about 15 ms, and anything above 25-30 ms is usually too annoying to talent monitoring off the air.</p>

For the Omnia.11: The short answer is "Too much for your DJ's to monitor directly from the FM or HD channel outputs". About 30ms. BUT...The DJ's can use the special low-delay DJ output instead (depending on your system). This can be routed to any of the Omnia.11's outputs in the appropriate submenu of the Output menu.

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