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Audio processing

Re: Who SOUNDS the best?

You have to tune the to the formats. Each stations signiture sound in our area really does match the music with few that dont. Do like the Boom on Rev101 and Power99 from the omnia. Godd for top 40 or urban.
 
I am honored your remember that Dave! It was Steve Winwood - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do and Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away that I used to set the processing and it seemed like once a month I would drag Super in there in the middle of the night. I guess it was noticed because Clarke Ingram told me we had the best sounding small market station he had ever heard and Rich Hawkins actually asked me to help set the processing at MixJamz one night, although he would not play the Steve Winwood track to do it, we had to settle for Corina - Temptation.

At RFY our engineer tweaks the settings about once a month or based on weather changes. I am usually the first call he makes after setting it to get my opinion and everytime I am honored. He "loaned" me an old CRL setup a few years ago and the first songs I ran through it were: Jody Watley - Don't You Want Me and Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing and what fun memories it brought back.

-Scott



> At WPRR in the early 90's, Scott St. John could never keep
> his hands off of the processing, much to the consternation
> of our engineer! Scott really enjoyed toying with the sound
> of the station. For a while, we had a reverb unit in the
> chain, which sounded kind of retro, but caused the
> processing to have fits.
>
> When I started at WPRR in 1988, they were using something
> from CRL. Then we had Texar/Gentner Audio Prisms and an
> Optimod that had been hot-rodded by some out of town
> freelance engineer. He would come in overnight, have us play
> a lot of Steve Winwood, and do his thing. He swapped out
> some of the cards in the Optimod and tuned the Audio Prisms.
> Later, the station owner dumped the Prisms and replaced them
> with a six band limiter, which to me never sounded as clear
> or crisp or loud as the Prisms. 100.1 in Altoona is still
> running the 8100A and the six-band limiter, or at least they
> were when I pulled my last shift there in January 2004.
>
> What is everybody in Altoona/State College running, and are
> they still making periodic tweaks?
>
 
> I am honored your remember that Dave! It was Steve Winwood
> - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do and Led Zeppelin -
> Over The Hills And Far Away that I used to set the
> processing and it seemed like once a month I would drag
> Super in there in the middle of the night. I guess it was
> noticed because Clarke Ingram told me we had the best
> sounding small market station he had ever heard and Rich
> Hawkins actually asked me to help set the processing at
> MixJamz one night, although he would not play the Steve
> Winwood track to do it, we had to settle for Corina -
> Temptation.

I remember it well, because that is when we were all having fun! Except Super, who would probably have rather been out on the lake.
 
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