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Big 98.1 processing

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Freak31

What happend with that? It sounds so unprocessed on FM and it sounds like if they feed it directly from their mixing board without processing in between. Are they using a bypass preset on their Omnia.11 or something? Totally different from other classic hits stations from the same stationgroup.
If you tuned in to MGK it sounds so different because they sound amazing to me and they have the same Omnia.11 I guess?
 
The Audacy music stations in Philly have had awful processing for a long time. They are all minimally processed and sound weak and muddy when you compare them to pretty much all other stations on the dial. B101 has sounded terrible for years, and 96.5 sounds weak. The 96.5 HD radio signal is softer than their analog signal and has been for years. Engineers seem to be asleep at the wheel. But the company has bigger fish to fry, I guess…
 
98.1 and 101.1 sound terrible and weak. Whenever I tune to one of those stations I have to turn the volume up to hear anything. Conversely, if I switch over to 95.7 or 102.9 from one of those aforementioned two stations, I have to turn it back down as they are so much fuller and louder. It really is mind boggling.
 
Yes I don't understand. In NYC 98.1 sisterstation CBS FM sounding a lot better and competitive these days. 98.1 sounds like a talk station who's playing music, that kind of processing preset in a sort of bypass mode.
 
I was in an Uber yesterday and the driver had B101 on. It was a very popular '90s hit (I wish I could remember which song it was, but I guess it doesn't really matter). It sounded terrible. I've noticed this on B101 for years but oddly, I notice it with some songs and not others. When it's happening, it sounds..."muddy" or "airy," and the vocal seems to be suppressed into the background somehow. I've noticed it enough times to know that it's not my ears playing tricks on me. If I had been in control of the radio, I would certainly have switched to a different station. I really don't know how anyone who works for the company could hear this in their own cars and not bring it to the attention of someone who can fix it.
 
I think they don't give a F. still not sounding good compared with other Audacy stations. There is something going wrong in their audio path or something what causes this sound.
 
I had B101 on in the car earlier for the first time in a long time, and the switch from analog to HD resulted in a particularly weaker, tinnier sound, which hasn’t always been the case. It is wild how the problems with processing only get worse with this cluster.
 
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