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Boomer's On the Air

I thought Esiason was covering football on CBS.
 
amlover said:
I heard the Eagle 106.7 mention. Didn't the Eagle die about 3 years ago.
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Occasionally I find myself calling Star 94 "94Q" and Dave "Z93". Seriously.
 
To say it nicely, the radio station is 106.7 Atlanta Greatest Hits, and its great hearing Boomers voice on the radio!!! I hope that Boomer can be a voice we here at that station for a long time. Boomer is a good guy and has had some bumps, but this bump I hope is a great bump for him. Good to hear ya Boomer!!!
 
The “muddy” sound of 106.7 might not be totally fixable. Almost all of the 1960’s and lot of the 1970’s music were originally recorded in analog. Some were even only 4 or 8 tracked which sometimes required a couple instruments or voices had to share a track before remixed. Now every drum or cymbal has a separate track which allows a drummer or keyboard “drum machine” to ‘carry’ the entire rhythm part of a lot of songs. Phil Specter, (recently convicted of murdering his wife) was a wizard of overdubbing and compressing songs to make them sound good on AM. One thing I noticed when I played one of his produced songs the volume needle hardly budged. This compression allowed a most AM AGC’s to maintain a higher average level of modulation without reaching the upper limit where the AGC’s limiter will cut back the total audio level to avoid distortion (wall of sound). Some AM stations had some serious compression and an echo just to raise the average audio level which “increased” average modulation which results a powerful signal after all it is amplitude modulation. The only way to tell if 106.7’s audio is as bad as some people think is for 106.7 and 97.1 both to play the same song and compare. I have not noticed any audio cut out lately.
 
secondchoice said:
The “muddy” sound of 106.7 might not be totally fixable. Almost all of the 1960’s and lot of the 1970’s music were originally recorded in analog. Some were even only 4 or 8 tracked which sometimes required a couple instruments or voices had to share a track before remixed. Now every drum or cymbal has a separate track which allows a drummer or keyboard “drum machine” to ‘carry’ the entire rhythm part of a lot of songs. Phil Specter, (recently convicted of murdering his wife) was a wizard of overdubbing and compressing songs to make them sound good on AM. One thing I noticed when I played one of his produced songs the volume needle hardly budged. This compression allowed a most AM AGC’s to maintain a higher average level of modulation without reaching the upper limit where the AGC’s limiter will cut back the total audio level to avoid distortion (wall of sound). Some AM stations had some serious compression and an echo just to raise the average audio level which “increased” average modulation which results a powerful signal after all it is amplitude modulation. The only way to tell if 106.7’s audio is as bad as some people think is for 106.7 and 97.1 both to play the same song and compare. I have not noticed any audio cut out lately.
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It's not an issue with the source. I haven't listened to the two stations with the same song back to back, but when I have heard the same song on both stations at different times you can really tell the difference--in terms of both frequency response and dynamic range.

There's the usual issue with a compressed dynamic range that all stations have today, but 106.7 seems to be worse than the rest. And the frequency response is bad, especially at the low and high ends. As I have said before, it sounds like a strong AM station minus the static. And it's all the time--music and spots.
 
You know....That's one of the great things about having a great voice, like Boomer's. You really have to mangle the processing hard to mess it up.

In fact, the only way to mess up how great he sounds....is to not have him on the air in the first place.

And why, in Heaven's name, would anyone keep that kind of an All-Star on the bench?

Jon-David Wells
The Wells Report
Dallas/Ft. Worth
 
The “muddy” sound of 106.7 might not be totally fixable.
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When ANY distortion or too much compression is introduced into the audio stream by the station, the problem IS fixable. Maybe it won't be "perfect", but it will be acceptable, whereas excuses are not.
 
Yesterday I'm driving home. On comes CSN "Teach Your Parents" and Dr. Hook "Cover of the Rolling Stone". Both of which I have on vinyl and CD. Both total road apples off air. The CSN cut shot full of aliasing distortion (annoying buzzy crud which follows the audio about 30 dB below it) and muffled instruments. The Dr. Hook had the bass line punching large holes in the audio. Cummings' verse was completely muffled. I put the CD in the player (had it with me) to compare. Night and day difference on the same player in the same truck teo minutes apart.
Fast forward to this morning, they're playing "Magnet and Steel", which I'd expect to hit the processing about the same as the CSN from yesterday. Sounded fine, sparkle and good definition. Go figure.
 
Darn. I thought this topic was going to be about (baby) boomers who still perform on the radio.
 
Think I figured out the main problem...they have the midrange cranked up LOUD! A better EQ curve would make for better listening.
 
Well,this evening, they'refullof static in Flowery Branch -if the tower fellit would >hit<Flowery Branch. Inconsistent audio and RF leads one to think there's a problem over there. I hope they get it sorted out.
 
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