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What is the best sounding radio station?

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Gatekeeper007

While things are slow on the board which radio stations do you think have the better sound quality listening to them. I am not talking about type of music or programming but real sound quality what sounds good to you. Here in South Carolina there are alot of good stations and if you have heard some anywhere in the country/world that really made you think gee that sounds good. One I heard that sounded really good was in Jacksonville, FL on 99. something five years ago when I was traveling thru. It was playing country music but boy did it sound good better than anything else on the dial I could find and I still remember how it sounded, anyone else on anything?
 
Since you mentioned a station from five years ago I guess I will go back even further... It was Labor Day weekend and the year was 1991. A little station on a very big stick in Dillon SC was brought back to life. It was Z93 and their format was Rock. This was b4 the station and the sound quality went down the crapper. They had some of the loudest, compressed audio that I had ever heard yet it all sounded good to the ear. When I lived in SC I talked to the CE who was also a ham operator who took care of the station. He said for a small operation he put together one hell of an audio chain to make that puppy loud. Had there been such a thing as active rock back in those days and Z93 had it you would have had perfect balls to the wall audio... Once Dr Doug left the CE roll and other changes started taking place the station, sound quality and everything else went down the drain even that poor CD player that Scott broke LOL CC1
 
CrazeeCarroll1 said:
Once Dr Doug left the CE roll and other changes started taking place the station, sound quality and everything else went down the drain even that poor CD player that Scott broke LOL CC1
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Oh, brother. Suddenly, I'm having a flashback.
:eek:
 
I remember traveling to Myrtle Beach back in the late 70's and heard some damn station, I think actually it was WDOG and they had so much reverb, you couldn't figure out what the hell was going on! Anybody remember that?
 
I know KZQ used to have some loud reverb on the mic when they were Top 40, but I loved it! The only other station I can remember having reverb was Power 98, we had it on program, not just the mic, I like reverb, but I didn't like hearing it on the spots, the EBS test and Casey Kasem.
 
Although it was a little before my time I am wondering if Ape is talking about tiger radio!!! I never got to listen to it, but heard a lot of things about it... CC1
 
Nope neither of those..I am quite sure it was DOG or something like that in ssome little Dip sh*t town ..I could only pick them up a little between Columbia and I-95 while traveling East on I-26! I mean the whole audio chain was wawawawawawawawawawawawecho
 
I don't recall WDOG, but I do remember that WKHJ out of Holly Hill had a lot of reverb on their mikes. I remember thinking that they were trying to affect a "Boss Jock" feel to their delivery back then, but, TGR and KZQ pretty much had done that to death by then. I gotta say, tho, KZQ not only had massive reverb, but unreal compression, as well.
 
Wow! Reverb on Mics. Now, Production experts do it with software. Introduce "stuttering". No wonder listeners ears get tired.

Radio would be better off voice tracking less and actually answering the request line that still rings.
 
freqdev said:
Wow! Reverb on Mics. Now, Production experts do it with software. Introduce "stuttering". No wonder listeners ears get tired.

Radio would be better off voice tracking less and actually answering the request line that still rings.
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I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic with the first statement regarding reverb(sounds like it,tho), but I agree with the second statement about the VTing.
 
BIG APE said:
Nope neither of those..I am quite sure it was DOG or something like that in ssome little Dip sh*t town ..I could only pick them up a little between Columbia and I-95 while traveling East on I-26! I mean the whole audio chain was wawawawawawawawawawawawecho
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Yep, that was WDOG in Barnwell. They were using reverb on their FM well into the 90s (the last time I've listened to them). IIRC, the station was not well-processed at the time.

Robyn
 
Thank ya very much Robyn..I am nuts but I was sure I had heard that before and wondered who in the world would do something like that..Are they still around or are they CC now??
 
I would want 'best sounding' to be defined to answer this question. are you talking about the sound quality? the best compiled playlist? the overall everything about the station? music, jock, production, imaging, liners, ect...

Im not the person qualified to answer this question, but I get some learnin frum reading your responses.

would just want 'best sounding' defined if I was to answer that question.



just call me president bill 'please define' clinton.
 
I left it open to get a broad range of answers, that way you can often get really good answers in two and sometimes three different directions. I was hoping for sound quality, playlist of songs, DJ's and origanal programming, anything that makes a station that someone has heard seem special to them and why. Everyone has different tastie in music and in the sound of radio stations they like the best.
 
In exploring this question over the years I am getting better with the use of my new compressor,
but still struggle with the right amount of reverb.
Those who may not know, I run AM pt 15 into a tube 100 mwmodulator, and the lack of the NRSC mask requirements means I get
to hear my own playlists on hifi AM radios at home, and tweak continuously.
I have mostly my own media, which I've begun digitizing.

Best is probably impossible to define. "Best for me" means that I sound like WCFL and WLS in the years they were actively duking it out.
But my playlist is impossibly wide, particularly in this, most recent aircheck.

http://thomasjwells.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-01-28T16_09_39-08_00
 
One of the best sounding stations I can remember listening to was the old WANS in Anderson. I lived there for nearly eight years, and before it was sold out a couple of times, it had really awesome air personalities, a great play list that I personally think rivaled WNOK at the time as well as their sound was incredible. You could go all over the upstate and hear that station and could carry it a long way toward Columbia as well.
 
A few years back, I seem to recall the "old" 96Wave ( :'( ) doing some sort of upgrade to their audio chain...and I think I even remember spots they did announcing this accomplishment. It sounded so very, very clean. Not harsh at all, almost CD-like. I have no clue if Chuck sounds as good because of the work done.

The worst processed station in SC currently has to be WTPT, although I think it has more to do with issues getting the signal from their studio to their stick.

G
 
BIG APE said:
Thank ya very much Robyn..I am nuts but I was sure I had heard that before and wondered who in the world would do something like that..Are they still around or are they CC now??
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Hi Big Ape,

WDOG-FM 95.7 is doing block programming, with a mixture of Country during the day and Urban (with USC sports) at night. Their sister AM, WDOG 1460, is ESPN with Clemson sports. They have a website at www.wdog.fm , but I can't bring it up at this point. Fortunately for us, they're not owned by CC, but Good Radio Broadcasting.

Best,
Robyn
 
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