K-EARTH L.A. Processing

[surfdude]

I've heard many comments on the boards about how good, technically, KRTH in Los Angeles
sounds. I hear them twice a year, and the do sound, open, loud, and smooth. I know the music dubbing is done meticulously and that plays a big part.

They set a high standard. Anyone know what their processing chain is?

 

[erwin33]

I've heard many comments on the boards about how good, technically, KRTH in Los Angeles
sounds. I hear them twice a year, and the do sound, open, loud, and smooth. I know the music dubbing is done meticulously and that plays a big part.

They set a high standard. Anyone know what their processing chain is?

I guess it's an Optimod 8500.

 

[MicroPhoney]

It's called great engineering, people that get and care about the station beyond the technical. Lynn Duke is there. He goes back to KHJ AM in the 70s at least. Experience and passion matter as does the "box(es)" used IMHO.

 

[Lazy J]

I heard they are running the Breakaway Box Software on their new IBM Watson computer...

 

[rrsounds]

I heard they are running the Breakaway Box Software on their new IBM Watson computer...

Really? I heard it was multiple series/paralleled CBS Audimaxes and Volumaxes.

;-)

David

 

[The F Mister]

I've heard many comments on the boards about how good, technically, KRTH in Los Angeles
sounds. I hear them twice a year, and the do sound, open, loud, and smooth. I know the music dubbing is done meticulously and that plays a big part.

They set a high standard. Anyone know what their processing chain is?

I guess it's an Optimod 8500.

Then it must be......... OTOH David knows his stuff...... So hard who to believe...... You know what I think they are running and old tapedeck with wideband limiter, gives an nice edge don't you think? ;D

 

[qtpieislit]

I know the music dubbing is done meticulously and that plays a big part.

I heard they are running the Breakaway Box Software on their new IBM Watson computer...

Really? I heard it was multiple series/paralleled CBS Audimaxes and Volumaxes.

;-)

David

Must work really well with dubbing music to cart.

 

[DoctorWu]

KRTH has been ab Orban house for years, but who knows?

You're right about Lynn, BTW. That man is golden. It was Chris Karb, who now works for CC in Asheville, NC, who set up the original K-Earth processing chain in the early 70s.

-- Doc

 

[davideduardo]

They set a high standard. Anyone know what their processing chain is?

Several LA FMs have the new Optimod 8600 on the air now. KRTH may be one of them. I know that where A:B comparisons have been made, it sounds really good, loud and transparent.

KRTH has always worked to make the product excellent before it hits the processor, too. They have even gotten dubs from master tapes (pre-digital, as most of their playlist is), which they meticulously dubbed to the digital system.

A few times when I was there in the 90's, there was a rack with a smoked glass cover on it with the processing... the settings and even the brands were not visible.

 

[richard.vanderveen]

I happened to be at WKNX (same building, same 'CBS team') in 2008 and saw a whole bunch of Compellors and even Prisms, lights flashing and all.
I guess they are or were for STL protection so could be part of the equation...?

 

[stewdioman]

I got a tour several years ago and it was all in a tall rack with smoked plexiglas covers over the boxes. No way it was a single processor! Lynn Duke is meticulous as was Bob Kanner before him.