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With software audio processing, there is no excuse for poor audio anymore!
As long as the broadcaster uses good quality source material of course (not YouTube rips!).
On the contrary, audio processing is a niche of it's own and with the amount of kit out there it's easy to make major errors. To get it right audio needs to be engineered by some sort of Tx or sound pro who knows what the output of the station is, the nature of their listeners, where and how they listen and their specific needs, and crucially how to manipulate the software and hardware to it's best.
With you 100% on the second point. Your output depends primarily on the source of your material and it's initial quality.0 -
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Agree it's a specialist skill and takes huge effort to get it right.
In terms of pirates though, I suspect that most will not be using any audio hardware in their chain (except an audio DAC to generate MPX). They can achieve reasonably good audio these days in software alone. Of course software processing still requires an amount effort and knowledge to get it set up and customised to suit the sound of the station – but it’s all within the same interface and the bundled audio presets the software will come with (StereoTool, BreakAway One and Omnia SST) will have good options for most types of stations.
That is true, yeah. Once they are playing decent sound files from a PC that has a decent sound card out or even an iPod then the base product should be passable, if thinny. Not like the old days when a clapped out mixer and a homemade exciter (Veronica, if you were loaded) feeding one folded dipope was what got many a station on air, with your studio playback coming from budget CD and tape decks from Richer Sounds! And here comes a memory stray...
In the early 90's it was big news when a few stations got hold of professional transmission units, usually CTE units, and the difference was huge even with the modest studio set ups. Radio Dublin at the time had two decent units and a useful site in the hills west of the city, DLR covered well on a then clear 106FM from Sallynoggin but Sunset le lucky in having an owner with good electronic skills and a few staff members who knew how it could sound if it was done a certain way and for a long time it was the benchmark.
When Kiss FM got itself a good site serviced with a UHF link system, some high end if old professional studio equipment and, pull out the bugles, an actual optimod it really should have led the way. And for a fleeting few weeks it did until an unscrupulous rival decided to jam them. Caught between a Rock and a hard place, if you will
Soon after it got beyond this issue but the scope of what they wanted to do meant that damage was political as much as anything. Not long after this it's first raid stifled it's dreams and the second it's hopes.
Where were we? Oh yeah, audio 0 -
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Losty you have started the cogs in the old memory - wasn't there a battlebetween Kiss and the unscrupulous rival for the Q102 prism !
Radio Dublins FM audio improved immenselywhen the 5kw AM was seized ! , Pulse 103 had an optimod, as did KIC104 (Pulses ! Iirc) , Freedom had an Omnia iirc and Sunset had the famous BartImod !
Sun 101 had a wonderful processor in the early day.
Losty - wasn't the Kiss desk the old Nova desk ?
These days Energy AM are afaik the only pirate using an optimod.
Speaking of Nova and the posting about the difficulties in setting up the audio processing chain - Chris Cary used to comment that Novas AM processing gave him a headache after 15 minutes - good audio processing is an Art form !
God, the plans for Kiss were as big and exaggerated as an elephants todger. I don't know about the Prism but there were definite plans for city centre studios, then city centre offices, then out of town studios, offices, a mountainside studio and offices before it, ahem, settled on Innovation House, a up to the minute media centre in the suburbs of Dublin. Or to be precise, located upstairs above a video store
But screw that; it had stickers and t shirts, headed notepaper, offices computers (Which I never recall ever being on.) and, of course, the Nova desk, the Orban and a three stack cart machine. I believe that Energy AM actually use it now but am open to correction while the desk was use for the temps that Kevin rain in the 00's.
Pulse, well it ended up being the station that Kiss shudda cudda have been in every sense of the word. Certainly it benefited greatly from the lessons learnt from Kiss, but it also drew in a lot from what happened at Sunset, and to a lesser extent Club FM. On and off air, it's had knowledgeable management, a well equipped studio, well prepped on air talent and a tidy on air sound. When they moved into the city, well it goes a lot bigger and better. Pulse was the real deal and undoubtedly it was the station of the 90's.
I had heard that tale about Radio Dublin before. Then again it's audio improved anytime Joe Doyle opened a fridge or somebody rang their 088 phone number
Freedom had the Omnia but they also had access to the use of some other professional audio rigs from, shall we say, a man with a bit of power, who would lend them bits and bobs over weekend to give them a wee test. And God be with the Bartimod. Gary was fund of prodding at the Sunset processor with a screwdriver, causing the transmission audio to randomly rise and drop mid show.
I can't help you about the Sun 101 processing early on but towards the end it was pretty ropy audio wise. I must ask a man who knows 0 -
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