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Audio Delivery without ISDN

lamey

lamey

Hey there,

I have been talking with a GM about producing Tech News for his stations and delivering the content to the station. He doesn't want to do ISDN, is there a way to
do it Live without Phone Line Quality and without the cost of ISDN, or if i record it. best way for the shows to get the segments which would be produced 20 min before air.

Lamey
 
Cheap n easy way - Record the show as a .wav file, and put it up on an FTP site so your clients can download it.
Not as cheeeep but even easier - look into the various audio over i.p. solutions. Barix has some really inexpensive boxes which are discussed in this forum among other places, all the way up through the new Telos box which isn't what you'd call cheap, but is feature rich. And the maker offers a system of servers.
Look around, it isn't going to be hard.
ISDN is a dead end technology, the GM is correct to skip over it. We'll use the equipment we got, as long as we can get service. When we can't, some sort of i.p. solution is in the cards.
 
We're currently evaluating the Comrex and TieLine boxes. Both work fairly well, both have their queeps and wheeblies. Unfortunately, when used over I.P., since neither is deterministic you can't really do a back - and forth live save at the lowest loss CODECs which don't sound all that great. The remote techs are using both, we'll wait for their input to decide on one.
 
You also have the choice of POTS codecs like the Comrex Bluebox and Tielines Patriot. For doing voice, they should be just fine. Actually, I'm using a Tieline Patriot for an STL for an AM station, and it sounds really good. All you need is an analog phone line.
 
I know for our station we've been using the Shoutcast DSP for our live remote setups. Really all that's required for that is a PC running Winamp with the Shoutcast DSP installed, a good audio card (you can buy those literally for under 100 bucks), and depending on the amount of bandwidth you have available you can do anywhere from 24kbps all the way up to 320kps, or if you want good audio quality at the lower bitrates due to bandwidth constraints you can encode the audio in AAC format as well. We've found that using the AAC DSP at around 96kbps will give us great sounding audio for talking, and "decent" audio for music...But again, this is all depending on your bandwidth.
 
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