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Carolina Classic Hits

R

radiorealtor

Hey Guys,

My Internet station is up and running now. You can listen to it in the radio station section of iTunes under 70's Retro. Also on TuneIn.com, Shoutcast.com for mobile phones, tablets and computers. The main website is www.CarolinaClassicHits.com and there's a Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/MyCarolinaClassicHits. It's fun to listen to and pretty much the way we did radio back in the 70's.

Check it out!

Rick
 
Hi Rick, I really like the programming and the EQ of your Carolina Hits internet radio station. Regarding the audio processing: I like the slow attack that gives it a little 'smack' on the leading edges of the audio - reminiscent of late 60's AM radio. However I think you could tweak it a little differently to have a slower overall gain change so that the quiet parts or the instrumental parts don't get pushed down so much when the vocal parts come in. It kind of sounds like everything is getting louder, then lower, then louder again... Are you using single or multiband processing?

From a fan of Carolina Top 40. Grew up in North Carolina listening to Big WAYS, WKIX and WTOB in the 60's and 70's.

Jim Huste
TransLanTech Sound
New York, New York

www.translantech.com
 
Rick, all I gotta say is GREAT JOB. Getting a station sounding this good right out of the box is a testament to your skills. It took me many months to get my station even close to what I wanted, and I'm still tweaking it. I love your choice of processing and the imaging is spot on. As a fellow Station Playlist user, I can tell you have mastered it. Welcome to the Internet Radio community. You'll meet some great people from all over the world who will make your station a part of their daily lives. It's liberating to not be tethered to a tower.

Congrats on a super-successful launch!
 
Thank you so much Marathon Don. And Jim, I appreciate your suggestions. I'll see what kind of refinements I can do but the plugin I'm working with (Tomass Limiter) is quite "limited" so to speak. It's a great plugin but there are very few settings. One of the best things about Tomass is that it does not tax the CPU as greatly as some of the DSP's I've tested. The station is running on a single-core Pentium 4 which was purchased used probably 4 years ago on Craigslist. This one computer has to handle the scheduling, the automation, the processing and the streaming; it has a lot on its mind. If you are familiar with this particular plugin, which is integrated into my automation, StationPlaylist, let me know as I am all ears!

Thanks

Rick
 
Hi Rick, thanks for responding so quickly regarding my coments on your audio quality - which overall is very, very good. I've never had the Alessandro Tomassini limiter plug-in but I have had a look at his web page with its picture of the plug-in's control panel. I see it has two release time controls: one for low and another for high. Maybe you could slow down the release times a bit and see if that reduces the 'swimming' effect. If it does but you loose density or overall loudness you could try bumping up the process to a little bit more towards the 'hard' end of the scale and see if that makes up for a slower release time... Having never played with this, it is just a shot in the dark but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts and results. Keep up the good work!

Jim
 
Rick,

The station sounds great - just as bright and tight as Big WAYS, WIST, and G105 during their prime years - on laptop, iPad, and iPhone. In the car, the audio really pops.

Marathon Don is spot on applauding your mastery of Station Playlist. After hearing your execution, I'm considering Playlist and Studio for an FM.

Nice job on your production of the Promobank jingles.

Good to see Jim Huste's whereabouts. He always kept WRDU sounding great.
 
Thank you Carrington. I appreciate all the nice words. In right around two weeks, I've had 2300 unique listeners in 78 countries. It's encouraging that 20% of the sessions are in excess of one hour and 30% of those who tried the station have turned out to be repeat listeners.

I tried some extra tweaking of the processing per Jim's comments but even slight adjustments started to throw off transitions between songs. The source material is rather varied, mainly in levels and although I have tried to normalize the levels in an editor, I can only save as mp3 and the original aac versions sound so much better, given that the signal has to go through another round of mp3 encoding prior to streaming. I'm still learning about this streaming concept.

I don't know if you noticed a post I put in the Raleigh/Greensboro board but sadly, Ben Freedman (THE Jingle Guy and the person with Promo Bank and the Instant Radio Station) passed away just less than a month ago. He had been having some health problems later part of 2012 but seemed to be on the mend when I talked with him back in December. He was a nice guy and certainly had a passion for jingles.

Thanks again....

Rick
 
Hi Rick, I did notice the changes you made. It is unfortunate that the Tomass Limiter is so.. 'limited' as you say. I agree that when you back down to the processing in order to preserve a little more of the original material's dynamic range the overall effect of sounding like a late 60's or 70's AM radio station starts to get lost. Too bad Tomass didn't include a 'gating' control in his limiter. The gate would freeze the processor functions when the audio level fell below some threshold amount. I guess if we all had unlimited resources we could have a more elaborate set up. It sounds like what you would need to do is get a hold of the audio before it went through the Tomass limiter and perform the bulk of the processing with a machine that had more options and then send that finished product back to the Tomass limiter and on out the door to the internet. But all in all it sounds pretty good and I do enjoy listening to it. Jim

PS Thanks Carrington for remembering me at WRDU. That was the most fun I ever had. Everyone there at the time had a lot of creative freedom and it showed in the product we were putting out. Too bad radio owners nowadays don't have the courage to provide an environment like that for their employees and to stand back and let them enjoy what they are doing. The results would bloom like flowers and the stations would have loyal listeners and really make some money...
 
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