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Can you guess the processor?

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realDtrump

Hey guys

I thought this might be something fun we could get going?

I've uploaded a recording of one of the stations I work at. The audio has come straight out of the tuner into Adobe, only ever saved once...as Wave. Station calls have been edited out...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/oenpw3

Can you guess the processor? I'll chime in once the correct guess has been posted

Feel free to post your own audio
 
It downloaded fine for me. Just click "Download File from Sendspace" and it pops up immediately.
 
I dunn-0.
It didn't produce a button I wanted to click


Here's what I see:

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Arianne feeding an Optimod 8100A? :D

(I'm not serious; this audio through an 8100 is not nearly this clean)
 
This isn't the most scientific way to gauge off-air sound, but I'm actually going to guess an Ariane feeding an 8100. Also hard to tell with today's, um, what do they call it? "Product"
 
Given the number of variables processors, settings, barefoot/not, it's nigh well impossible to guess. But folks plays the lottery, too.

Given that it is clearly set to have no perceived dynamic range and you said the chain was fed by an additional box, I will definitely add my hat in the ring for an Ariane, although the Ariane generally will help you keep the perceived dynamics rather than squish the grape.

So perhaps its an Ariane into an 8200. The bass control sounds more like it would be an Omnia, though.

Needles in a haystack...
 
TomZ said:
Sorry Charlie, too many hoops to get to the audio.
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Agreed, plus when I went all the way to the download now button it came up as an .exe file, not an audio file. No way am I going to download an executable onto my computer!

As for a random guess without even hearing the file: Gates Level Devil into a Gates Sta-Level! (showing my age, and if I have that backwards I am REALLY showing my age :p)
 
If it had been a full composite (mpx) recording, it might have been possible to make a determination. As a left-and-right de-emph audio recording, we have no idea about gain (modulation) or what amount of de-emphasis the tuner was actually using, making it impossible to really determine anything.
 
DudeFan said:
So perhaps its an Ariane into an 8200. The bass control sounds more like it would be an Omnia, though.

Needles in a haystack...
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DudeFan is the closest so far...

It's an Ariane into 8400 8)
 
konbaasiang said:
If it had been a full composite (mpx) recording, it might have been possible to make a determination. As a left-and-right de-emph audio recording, we have no idea about gain (modulation) or what amount of de-emphasis the tuner was actually using, making it impossible to really determine anything.
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Yep, that would have been ideal...but it's just a little bit of fun. Anyway...this is how the audience hears the audio after all.

Anybody else able to upload some recordings?
 
Definitely sounds like a digital Optimod -- and the sharp lowpass cutoff at 15.5 kHz is an Orban trademark; the LPF on Omnia processors extends beyond 16 kHz.
 
And here's what happens when you take a low-end analog processor and turn both the Limiter Drive and Low-Freq Enhance controls all the way up -- the bass turns into raw square waves! Normally I wouldn't push it nearly that far, but it was quite amusing to see on the modulation scope.

Sample here:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=81871937393428331976

I connected the processor's MPX output to a 192 kHz sound card, recorded the composite waveform using MPXtool, and then used Leif's "mpxdec" tool to decode the composite audio into a de-emphasized stereo WAV file.

For those of you with MPXtool, here's the direct 192 kHz FLAC composite waveform from the processor:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=72746246762362948844
 
satech said:
For those of you with MPXtool, here's the direct 192 kHz FLAC composite waveform from the processor:
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Holy squarewave, batman! But, you know what: I've seen worse. Off the air, on actual radio stations.

:)
 
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