I've noticed several times on KLIF, KRLD, maybe others, during shows when they play bumper music leading into the next segment, only one of the stereo channels is being passed through. May not be such a big deal on most music, but when there's full stereo separation in the source material it can sound pretty odd. Example: Yesterday heard Cheryl Crow's "Every Day Is A Winding Road" used as a lead-in. It starts out with bongos in one channel, slide guitar in the other. Over the air only the bongos were going out. They need to mix the stereo at the source so it will be mono when it goes out over the air. I have brought this to the attention of the station and the program host, and I get excuses and told nothing is wrong. I guess they just don't monitor what goes out over the air any more. Rant done!
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Bumper music on some locals only playing one stereo channel
- Thread starter Megapsycle
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rbrucecarter5
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Megapsycle said:
It is a distinct possibility that you are the only HD AM listener to make the observation.
To clarify.. No "HD" here. 570 KLIF hasn't been "HD" for at least a year or two. This is going out over standard ol' AM. They aren't mixing the stereo to mono for their bumper music, and only picking up one channel to go out over the air. You are half right though; I apparently am the only one that notices it.rbrucecarter5 said:
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dfaulkner
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Wonder if there's a chance of all AMs going back to a standard mono broadcast ? On a normal radio, that sounds better.
Bumper music? REALLY?
Honestly, stuff like this is a typical problem with mono AM stations. Because it's not obvious, people at the station don't even notice. I recently built a over-height FM translator for a well-established AM station here in our market. It supprised even me how many things showed up on the air either in only one channel or one-channel to both of the stereo busses. I spent a fair amount of time noting the flaws and going to fix them.
I notice it, too, on a lot of shows. You notice a track that you're familiar with only plays the left channel or the right channel, where you only hear every other synth note of the intro to "Sunglasses at Night" for instance because they alternate left-right-left-right.
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rbrucecarter5
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I hate to hear bumper music - it is a depressing reminder of the great days of radio when they actually played music. Before dumbing down to the piddle, drivel and swill of talk, or slob sports. I catch a few seconds of music, then tune away before being hit by radio mediocrity.
That Cheryl Crow "Every Day Is A Winding Road" tune I heard on KLIF... upon closer listening of the CD, starts out with maybe 2 sec in the Rt channel of guitar strum, bongo, organ, then followed from :03 to :07, 4 seconds total of nothing in the Rt channel. Because the music is all in the other (Left) missing channel, the result heard over the air is 4 seconds of dead air. Heck, when I had my short career working at a radio station, 4 seconds of dead air would have caused havoc if the program director or station manager happened to hear it. Seems common these days. Write it off as a computer glitch I guess. Been noticing long delays sometimes over a half a minute on AM stations switching to low power at dusk or to high power at dawn, but that's a whole 'nuther topic.
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