I just got back from a week and 2500 miles of Atlanta to Tulsa to Louisvile to Atlanta, sampling stations (all FM) along the way. Heard some good audio, and some not so good. The overriding notice I made was mic audio. It was uniformly awful, small market to large. In every instance, lousy spectral balance, pumping, aliasing, and generally a Fest 'O' Feces. The least worst was a small market station in western Arkansas.. which likely had a 635 feeding the board barefoot. The (Saturday noontime) jock didn't have the best technique, but he >did< have the least worst sounding mic audio of the trip. I wonder if we might be better off using the 'bypass' button on a lot of the equipment currently stuck in the mic chain. And, while it's an interesting intellectual exercise to try to determine when the mic proc amp receeds and the main proc amp fights it, the result is excreable.
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LOL..Turn off the phase rotator dude...Seems mic audio gets lost to the gee whiz processor.Fest O Feces,isn't that the Taco Bell special..Some jocks really love that heavy mic compressing.gives em balls...
I really dislike larger than life voice sound. Especially when someone already has a bass voice, then it's just retarded to beef up the bass or compress it much down low.
DBX 286A (not to be confused with Bob Orban's cool DBX 268A processor) really wins my heart in this regard. Nice and easy compression, with slow and gentle bass and presence enhancement, a natural sounding gate, and a price that's right.
If I have the budget though, I want the Yellowtec VIP.
On the other end of the spectrum you have the now discontinued Aphex 230. That thing can create some truly craptasticly huge sounds. I know someone who runs one of those through an Aphex 2020 MkIII (yes, just for their mic), and to be honest... they sound better through a dry sub-$200 microphone.
DBX 286A (not to be confused with Bob Orban's cool DBX 268A processor) really wins my heart in this regard. Nice and easy compression, with slow and gentle bass and presence enhancement, a natural sounding gate, and a price that's right.
If I have the budget though, I want the Yellowtec VIP.
On the other end of the spectrum you have the now discontinued Aphex 230. That thing can create some truly craptasticly huge sounds. I know someone who runs one of those through an Aphex 2020 MkIII (yes, just for their mic), and to be honest... they sound better through a dry sub-$200 microphone.
The LA4 - or some of the other gentle levelling amps - are about all tht's needed. Plus a bit of jock orientation. You will likely get a better result from a $10K processor doing the worst of the work than you will with an $800 one. >if< the operator will run the levels such that the voice predominates and the proc amp can play with it.
The distressing problem is, it's >all< lousy. Makes you think nobody is minding the store. Which is probably accurate.
The distressing problem is, it's >all< lousy. Makes you think nobody is minding the store. Which is probably accurate.
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