Sawtooth, I know you gonna like this one, so I decided I had to post something about it....I noticed they made more changes to the on-air processing at the B. It used to be loud and now, it's horrible. I detected the change while changing stations yesterday, so I decided to listen for a while. The ID's seem to be stepping on the songs,... big time! The audio gain on the processor isn't recovering after loud passages, so it sounds like dead air for a bit. Then you realize there's a song on, but really low. lol
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lol........... i was waitin on someone to post about it. not everybody on here is in the new orleans area i guess. 
yeah the id's and liners do stomp on the beginning of some songs. and you are right about that gain thing. seems like they are trying to get away with little or no compression or heavy gating. not a good idea in chr radio because of the different genres of music.......at around 5am this morning, a liner played and then the new staind song "right here waiting" played immediately after. first off b97 playes the song in mono. doesn't anyone over there notice when a song is in mono, not stereo??? hello!well anyways, after the liner, i didn't hear anything, so i turned the radio up. to my surprise, the song was there but was so low it was undetectable unless one turned his/her radio up. all of a sudden when the vocals started, the gain recovered so fast, i had to lower the volume again.........they could maybe speed up the release time and back off on some of the gating. that could possibly help with those slow gain recoveries........ but processing these days is tricky. especially those new-fangled digital things........ presets n all........ blahsawtooth
yeah the id's and liners do stomp on the beginning of some songs. and you are right about that gain thing. seems like they are trying to get away with little or no compression or heavy gating. not a good idea in chr radio because of the different genres of music.......at around 5am this morning, a liner played and then the new staind song "right here waiting" played immediately after. first off b97 playes the song in mono. doesn't anyone over there notice when a song is in mono, not stereo??? hello!well anyways, after the liner, i didn't hear anything, so i turned the radio up. to my surprise, the song was there but was so low it was undetectable unless one turned his/her radio up. all of a sudden when the vocals started, the gain recovered so fast, i had to lower the volume again.........they could maybe speed up the release time and back off on some of the gating. that could possibly help with those slow gain recoveries........ but processing these days is tricky. especially those new-fangled digital things........ presets n all........ blahsawtoothKaplan + processor = major league crap! Would you expect anything less? Engineers know how to tweek those things.
Re: B-97 - Songs In Mono
As a matter of fact and for the record, they play a few songs like that. That's not the only one. While I worked over there at the B, we played Kelly Clarkson - Behind Hazel Eyes, Ashlee Simpson - Pieces Of Me, and a few others in mono. Nowdays, it's the new Staind song, Nick Lachey, and one or two others in mono. Their recorded into the system like that. The person doing the recording is not checking the CD player outputs on the mixer console BEFORE doing the transfer.Well, I brought the subject up one time to the A-PD, but was told off because I was wrong. YET you could hear both channels at equal modulation with no difference. But I didn't know anything I was talking about....If anyone finds any songs in mono, you'd have to call the station. Their not going to take one persons word for it. Besides,... it's really not that big of a deal to them, so why should we bother??Jason Reed
As a matter of fact and for the record, they play a few songs like that. That's not the only one. While I worked over there at the B, we played Kelly Clarkson - Behind Hazel Eyes, Ashlee Simpson - Pieces Of Me, and a few others in mono. Nowdays, it's the new Staind song, Nick Lachey, and one or two others in mono. Their recorded into the system like that. The person doing the recording is not checking the CD player outputs on the mixer console BEFORE doing the transfer.Well, I brought the subject up one time to the A-PD, but was told off because I was wrong. YET you could hear both channels at equal modulation with no difference. But I didn't know anything I was talking about....If anyone finds any songs in mono, you'd have to call the station. Their not going to take one persons word for it. Besides,... it's really not that big of a deal to them, so why should we bother??Jason Reed
Well, it ain't the first time B97's processing has been bad. I remember about five years ago when I was listening to them down on the Gulf Coast, the songs that Lifehouse and Blu Cantrell had out at the time sounded as if they were being played underwater. It sounded like the vocals were coming out of one speaker and the music on the other.
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