WCBS - processing?

[Studio1]

I'm listening to this station online and it sounds REALLY good.

I'm guessin' someone here either works for them or knows what they're using for
processing.

Either way, they've got a great sound!

 

[fm-engineer]

Not sure, but for the money you can't argue with the Optimod PC card.

 

[Sgeirk]

Well, of course, they're using the CBS Audimax and Volumax!

 

[wgliradio]

While I can't divulge too much, it's not what you think We're using Breakaway on the streaming PC. The 1100PC card has a terrible AGC even with the upgrade, so we were using it with the AGC defeated and a Compellor out front. We still have the Compellor, but it's only to watch levels going into the PPM encoder.

 

[fm-engineer]

I thought the new AGC was an improvement. It seems handle hypercompressed material better.

 

[wgliradio]

Actually it's the stuff that has alot of transients that seems to make it go batty. The new software did nothing to help that and that's been a problem since the 8200 (the 8200-ST, 8400, 8500 all have this problem)

 

[konbaasiang]

Take a risk, take a chance, make a change...

///Leif

 

[erwin33]

While I can't divulge too much, it's not what you think We're using Breakaway on the streaming PC. The 1100PC card has a terrible AGC even with the upgrade, so we were using it with the AGC defeated and a Compellor out front. We still have the Compellor, but it's only to watch levels going into the PPM encoder.

Which preset are you using in Breakaway for the stream?

 

[Sgeirk]

I think the Oldies preset is one of the best in Breakaway...along with plutonium, and the rock preset...add the bass and phase rotator plugins and BAM...I'd put BB on the air in any size market, any....where.

 

[erwin33]

Phase tornado is great. Your station 'jumps of the dail' with these plugin. Lots of stations in France using phase rotation. It gives a special signature to your sound.

 

[Tom Wells]

Phase tornado is great. Your station 'jumps of the dail' with these plugin. Lots of stations in France using phase rotation. It gives a special signature to your sound.

I love Breakaway in Dance preset with mild settings. WCBS sounds as good as it can with so few bps.

Phase rotation makes an immediate, obvious improvement on FM, but I do not use it on AM, where I find it detracts.
Phase rotation, like anything else, is a selective, adjustable type of distortion which we may prefer for an advantage in radio-audio.
BBP controls the "build" of the waveform the waveform totally, not just modifying "existing" audio, so when such transients add as to
go past such a point (as 100% for ex), the phase of one of more component is shifted so the algebraic sum of these does not exceed 100%.

Go get 'em Leif.

Many devices have had "special signatures" as various capacitors failed at different points in different audio and RF applications.
Sometimes the effect was quite musical yet measured awful, or the result might be minor measurement changes, yet sounds awful.
Often it has to with where in the circuit such a capacitor changed, and how it changed. A coupling capacitor with DC leakage
in an audio circuit, if small, could add a pleasant amount of harmonic distortion that would make everything sound just a bit fatter and fuller.
This point is quickly passed, though, and the thing is just bad.
Point is, some material benefits more from phase rotation. Failing capacitors ( or just plain old-style paper capacitors) had so much leakage
that in the old days, phase rotation was prettty much guaranteed in the higher register audio without anyone having to design it in. :-\
Phase tornado would seem to model a high speed dynamically changing "paper-cap w/leakage" response.