Audio at Star 94

[radiochic05]

Don't blame the engineers - programming decides how the station should sound. The programming types at Star have hit the panic button.....so waht do you do first?? That's right - change the jingle package and crank the "SUX" control up on the audio processing.
Can they make it sound worst than Q100? I'm sure they will try!
FWIW....I listened to Star tonight on an Infinity Bose car system and Star sounded as good as anyone else with the exception of:
WCLK 91.9
WABE 90.1
Everyone else sounds like dog squeeze....if you can't tell then you need to see a ENT.
My college station(WRAS)audio even sucked! And so did the audio on the Georgia Tech station.....run by engineers!
So I don't know why your picking on Star.......

Flaming Star seems to be the only way most of these radio "experts" get their jollies (except for Roddy Freeman who actually finds something positive to say about them from time to time).

 

[taylorengineer]

Tom:
WREK usually sounds very good....I'm sure it was just the selection playing when I tuned in. For the record, WREK is probably better engineered than most commercial stations.
Judicious use of the "SUX-LITE" control can be useful but you must be careful or you will run off all the female college radio groupies and there will be no recreational sex for the male DJs.
STAR is being picked on because of it's knee-jerk reaction to Q100 - the audio is the LAST thing they should be worried about.
I have not heard ONE coldcut on Shannon's backside. Not ONE! I think the lack of gratuitous sexual innuendo on the morning show is what I would be worried about. If you're trying to make your station female "unfriendly"......nothing works like a few slutty interns and some deli cuts.....
Yes....to run off female listeners....turn up the "SUX" knob and break out the cold cuts.

 

[littlejohn]

Actually, dicking with the audio is the only good way to blame the tech shop for falling ratings. The counter to this of course is "It's the same setup you got the good ratings on". I still subscribe to Orban's analysis. Note that through all the glory years, 96 was very clean and sounded killer. Likewise 106. In both instances, screwing around woith the processing has done notheing to halt their declines. I suspect the same will be true of the Cloud Company outlets and Star. Leave us observe and find out. As long as everyone has a smoking hole in their foot, competition will continue on an even keel. Just for fun, take a monitor, look for average, and report back.

 

[Sgeirk]

Last I heard, Star was using an 8400, but that was 4-5 years ago, and from what I understood, their reverb box was in-line...blech!

To the earlier poster re: Cosmic on an Omnia.

Cosmic on the new Omnias is THE perfect preset for a wide array of formats. As I remember setting ours up, the w/b drive goes to 11, and the average input should be about -12 in.

Clean, pristine, and very nice apparent loudness with awesome song-to-song consistency. A first for a digital box, IMHO.