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95.7 the Spot Audio Processing is Awesome

Agreed, if I remember correctly 95.7 has always had good sound. Back when I was in High School and worked part time in a hospital my boss would always have 95.7 The Wave playing. I disliked it so much 😂 but sounded great even in the basement of the hospital . When it because HOT 95.7 it became my favorite station and also sounded great. Still does with the Spot .
 
Mrtejano said:
Agreed, if I remember correctly 95.7 has always had good sound. Back when I was in High School and worked part time in a hospital my boss would always have 95.7 The Wave playing. I disliked it so much 😂 but sounded great even in the basement of the hospital . When it because HOT 95.7 it became my favorite station and also sounded great. Still does with the Spot .
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I loved The Wave; but then, I worked there on the air.
 
NickD said:
I find that 95.7 The Spot has great audio processing. It’s consistently loud and the bass has a punch. I love how it sounds.
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Just gave it a listen while on lunch and I agree. Sounds great on the tuner in my truck, and coincidentally on a boombox sitting in the vestibule of a Kroger store in The Woodlands.
 
ChuckTiller said:
I also worked there in 1975 along with KIKK 650.
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Chuck Wolf, the news director, was a great guy. When I was pushed out of KTRH, he didn't have any spot open for someone like me, but he offered kind words of encouragement, which meant a lot.

Some folks at KTRH referred to the station as "Boot I Boot Boot", mimicking its longtime logo. It still astonishes me that it's not still around; it was such a juggernaut in the 1980s.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Chuck Wolf, the news director, was a great guy. When I was pushed out of KTRH, he didn't have any spot open for someone like me, but he offered kind words of encouragement, which meant a lot.

Some folks at KTRH referred to the station as "Boot I Boot Boot", mimicking its longtime logo. It still astonishes me that it's not still around; it was such a juggernaut in the 1980s.
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That juggernaut began in the 1960s. Funny thing, many of the the DJs at KIKK would refer to themselves as Boot-I-Boot Boot back in those days. The crew in the 1960s laid the foundation for the success of KIKK in the following years.
 
2Speakers said:
If history is any indication, their TSL is just fine. The Spot has been a top performer pretty much since launch.
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Sister station KILT-FM has somewhat similar processing with regards to loudness, and if I'm not mistaken, they have regularly been the highest TSL country station in the US.
 
KIKK-FM had superb audio processing in the 1980s and 90s, sounded fantastic. That continued through the KHJZ Smooth Jazz incarnation. However I thought Hot 95-7 sounded like overly compressed mp3 files, though that may have had more to do with the source material than the audio chain.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
KIKK-FM had superb audio processing in the 1980s and 90s, sounded fantastic. That continued through the KHJZ Smooth Jazz incarnation. However I thought Hot 95-7 sounded like overly compressed mp3 files, though that may have had more to do with the source material than the audio chain.
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Audio processing akin to the loudness wars of the 80's and 90's doesn't cut it these days when your direct competitor is streaming.
A great way to drive away TSL, is 'great sounding processing'. Processing should make the music natural sounding while maintaining as much natural dynamic range as possible. If a listener can hear the processing, it's probably too much.
 
Kelly A said:
Audio processing akin to the loudness wars of the 80's and 90's doesn't cut it these days when your direct competitor is streaming.
A great way to drive away TSL, is 'great sounding processing'. Processing should make the music natural sounding while maintaining as much natural dynamic range as possible. If a listener can hear the processing, it's probably too much.
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In the mid-1980s, KKBQ-FM and KRBE-FM were notorious for heavy-handed processing...KRBE more so than KKBQ, but KKBQ was bad enough. When KKBQ started simulcasting on AM and FM, both in stereo, in 1986, I found the AM signal more listenable, because there just wasn't as much processing and it sounded more natural.

At KLOL one day in 1985, something happened with the processing one morning and it started sounding like KRBE. The engineering staff (located next to the KTRH newsroom, which is how I learned about this) went into action and the sound was tamed considerably by noon. A part in either the Optimod or the Dorrough unit that front-ended it had failed.
 
tb_ said:
Sister station KILT-FM has somewhat similar processing with regards to loudness, and if I'm not mistaken, they have regularly been the highest TSL country station in the US.
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They had similar processing to 95.7 for quite some time - actually not similar, nearly identical. Same air chain, slightly different settings.

The corporate processing guru came in and screwed with it back in June.

KILT-FM was at a 4.6 in June, 3.6 in July, 3.3 in August, and has gone back up slightly to a 3.4 in September.

KILT-FM had very high cume for a while a few years back, but it also had a very different team programming it then.

I guess screwing with success doesn't always work out.
 
Hot 95.7 existed when Top 40 was more appropriate than it is today but still had some songs about partying and drinking immoral sex etc.
 
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