Troublesome songs for processors

[BobOnTheJob]

That was courtesy of EIMAC though, not the record company. They changed the internals of the tube and didn't tell anyone. We found out, though. And my respect for The Wiz and Ken Branton went through the roof over the problem. I trhink they actually sawed a tube in half at one point to confirm why the problem occurred.

I always enjoyed being on the tech support line with Ken Branton...especially when he referred to the transmitter in question as 'the radio'...

 

[radiorob2.0]

Music from The Association (Never My Love, Cherrish) will reek havoc on phase correction. We had a "Phase Chaser" on an AM stereo station. Talking down the end of those songs was a trip as the equipment returned to normal. The DJ's voice would fade in if using a mono reciever.

The original CD release of Martha & the Vandellas' "Heatwave" was an out of phase monster as was "Reach Out of the Darkness".

 

[WPPCProductions]

I remember back in the late 70's,hearing German singer Tina Rainford's, Silverbird on a local country fm station,It sounded like the treble setting on a equalizer were maxed out on the plus side,I have no idea what they had for a audio chain at the time in that era,but the sound reminds me of a crappy audio stream from realaudio from the late 90's with the swishing sound of the highs,or a cheaply converted mp3 .

 

[ChiefEngineer]

Bette Davis eyes would cause WAZY 1410 to dump. Pre MW 1. Cheap audio processor.

 

[Groove1670]

Del Amitri Roll To Me - Did not process right on poor compression settings. Second runner up Heart These dreams at the start.

 

[dannyscott101]

Eamon - "I Don't Want You Back" (radio friendly title - the actual name of the song is 'F*** It')

Bass beats in the slow intro can cause major pumping, even on a multiband processor.

Back in the mid '80s, the Run DMC version of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" would punch brutal holes on stations still running 8000s. Also Young MC's "Bust a Move" with its series of short bass thumps.

This was the 'dynamic' era of CD recording, and probably the discovery that bass was no longer limited by the RIAA rolloff in those LPs!

 

[maineengineer]

Wow! Over a week of posts, and nobody to date has mentioned the one that launched the Optimod-FM on its way to success(es), the "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes, which B.O. (before Optimod) was capable of tickling the 100% peak flasher on a modulation monitor with an average level of only 25-30%.

 

[satech]

Wow! Over a week of posts, and nobody to date has mentioned the one that launched the Optimod-FM on its way to success(es), the "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes, which B.O. (before Optimod) was capable of tickling the 100% peak flasher on a modulation monitor with an average level of only 25-30%.

Maybe so, but I recall Bob Orban saying that playing that song through an Optimod 8000 makes the hi-hats sound like somebody hammering garbage can lids, and was the main inspiration for the HF limiter design in the 8100 (as opposed to only using HF clipping, as he originally envisioned).

I've also heard that the bells during the intro of "We Just Disagree" (Dave Mason) would trip some AM transmitters off the air during the Audimax-Volumax days.

 

[gtomas]

Yes, it should have been B.8100

 

[317C50KW]

I met a guy who was an assistant engineer on the Shaft sessions. He told me they really messed with the bias and eq on the track of the tape machine to get the cymbal to cut like that. The Shaft soundtrack won a Grammy for engineering and an Oscar for best song.

And it still sounds great today.

 

[rrsounds]

I met a guy who was an assistant engineer on the Shaft sessions. He told me they really messed with the bias and eq on the track of the tape machine to get the cymbal to cut like that. The Shaft soundtrack won a Grammy for engineering and an Oscar for best song.

And it still sounds great today.

Indeed it does. When I was at Z100 I got to meet Isaac Hayes, and like any engineer, I had to ask him how they did that. He just laughed, and said, "They cut it pretty hot, didn't they!"

He seemed pleasantly amused when I told him that you could hear that song two channels away on an AM radio back in the day, LOL!

The opening hi-hat is really strong, but the tambourine is what clinches it! R.I.P. Isaac Hayes...He was a mega-producer!

Kind Regards,
David

 

[listner1]

I love to listen to the last 20 seconds or so of Prince - Let's Go Crazy (LP version). It drive's anything that does any compression completely crazy!