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Worst engineering audio practice I've ever heard - KTTH Seattle

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I've been in radio engineering for over 40 years at some of the biggest stations in the country. In Seattle KTTH (50,000 watts at 770) on the weekends reruns Rush Limbaugh and local show David Bose by recording the original run of these shows off the air from an AM radio tuner!! This obviously airs with double OPTIMOD. It is totally unlistenable. The rerun of the David Bose show last weekend was recorded with a bad signal to the tuner with another station on 770 coming in near sundown plus the static the tuner was picking up and being recorded!! They can't record off the line for the re broadcast??
 
You'd be AMAZED at what I've heard stations getting away with since 1996....
 
This is because the station is totally neglected from an technical standpoint. Plus, the station sounds neglected overall.

In a weird way, it might be better as the Pd has his hands full screwing up KIRO, so it's probably better no one pays much attention to KTTH. :p
 
Personally, what gets me is when a station sets the processor for asymetric modulation and then reverses the audio line to the transmitter.
 
ai4i said:
...when a station sets the processor for asymetric modulation and then reverses the audio line to the transmitter...
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It's the phasing of the audio signals - as you want to boost the positive peaks, not the negatives...

Definately a manifestation of "flash-cut", "plug-n-run" contract engineering practices nowdays.
 
dialtwister said:
Definately a manifestation of "flash-cut", "plug-n-run" contract engineering practices nowdays.
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Y'know, 'twisty, you're better off sticking to threads/posts about C89.5, birthdays of people who have EVER cracked a mic in Seattle and links to websites no one cares about. Comments like the one above show you are truly clueless about contract engineering.

That being said - if everyone's so curious about why KTTH's audio was so bad why not call the station and ask for the chief engineer? If it's the same guy who was there in the Entercom days he's a nice enough person and probably will take your call.
 
SeattleRadioPro said:
Y'know, 'twisty, you're better off sticking to threads/posts about C89.5, birthdays of people who have EVER cracked a mic in Seattle and links to websites no one cares about. Comments like the one above show you are truly clueless about contract engineering.
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Bull's-eye.
 
Well put S.R.P. Posting your opinion about the quality of a station sound is one thing, but then chiming in with a generalized statement about an engineering department or contract engineers like you have some insider knowledge when it's clear you don't, is inappropriate.

And what's up with the comments about phase? I don't think the original post had anything to do with phase, but how the delayed programming was recorded/played back. Talk about left field.
 
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