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Q-100's (99.7) "Saturday Night Q" output levels................

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electroboy73

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A Q-100 fan and they're really doing a great job at the new frequency but.........

.......third week in a row listening to the club mixes on "Saturday Night Q" and the output levels are pi-teee-ful!!

Maybe it's because of the live broadcast from Velvet Room.....(whatever club it comes from) or WHATEVER! But was listening between 10:30 and 12midnight the last couple of Saturday nights and first off, the music is way over in the left channel and the volume is extremely low! You gotta turn it up pretty loud to here what they're playing.....regular times, Q sounds fine but "Saturday Night Q" sounds horrible! Isn't ANYONE board-operating the feed? Don't they know the levels are outta whack?

Listen! If you're gonna be playing club mixes at your new, state of the art, 100-TRILLION watt signal, then at least make it sound good!

**BTW, I've stated this in other posts but, aside from the quality of the output, it WOULD BE NICE if Q would actually played REAL club music too! (i.e. TIESTO, SHAPESHIFTERS, PAUL VAN DYK, GROOVE ARMADA, ATB, ....etc.) BUT, OH WELL......we can't have everything.....**
 
sounds like a really poor quality MPEG stream with the balance panned about 80 percent to the left. maybe they are using a marti or poor ISDN line. I noticed it myself, sounds like a really bad MP3...but then compared to what I've heard in the past from live remotes, it could be worse.
 
I'd guess that the equipment and lines aren't bad, but they probably take a mix from the club sound system. Airing venue mixes usually leads to grief, this one is no different. I doubt there's much of anyone left in their promotions department who knows how to establish and ride gain on a remote with music in it. It sounds like they simply dial it up and let it run, a recipe for disaster.
 
electroboy73 said:
**BTW, I've stated this in other posts but, aside from the quality of the output, it WOULD BE NICE if Q would actually played REAL club music too! (i.e. TIESTO, SHAPESHIFTERS, PAUL VAN DYK, GROOVE ARMADA, ATB, ....etc.) BUT, OH WELL......we can't have everything.....**
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If you want to hear this type of club music, come to my gym classes! ;)

Unfortunately, Q100's idea of "dance music" is Kelly Clarkson and other miscellaneous Americal Idol artists. Ugh!
 
It sounded like a Codec with a poor quality line connection. At times it had that cell phone "water" sound and at other times it sounded out of phase with the "water sound".

When the quality was OK, the levels were terrible. The music was low so that when you had your volume set for a good level, the jock would talk and make your receiver jump out of the dash. It has not always been this way.

8)
 
The bar may be too cheeeeep to put in ISDN, or it might have failed.. Buckhead Tandem is famous for lousy lines which are poorly supported, especially on weekends. In which case, the feed might have been done on a POTS CODEC to save the billing to the club. Or, they may have simply had someone who had no idea what s/he was doing running it. Which for the Cloud Company would certainly not be a unique situation.
 
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