Frank ... everyone that I know that is serious about audio and owns a Flex is using external processing for exactly the reason that you are inquiring about. I have been absolutely unable to get close to the performance of a simple external hardware preamp and compressor with the built in software processing. So the short is .. yes your experience is right on. I have to add however, that I don't consider it a problem. It would be nice to not need to use external gear but it doesn't bother me that I do!
--Larry W8ER Frank Mayer wrote: > I have had my SDR-1000 for about 6 months now and I am very happy with it for > the most part. After all is said and done the only criticism that I really > have of the rig is the performance of the Compressor. What is this function > actually? I have tried all versions of the Power SDR software and I just > can't seem to get the compression performance that I am used to with my > conventional transceivers. If I increase the level of compression to where I > approach the level of average power that I am used to, the audio is not > clear but muffled. The unprocessed audio with the SDR has been exceptional > but the only way I can get the rig to approach the punch and talk power of my > other rigs is to use my Ten-Tec 234 speech processor with the SDR. Using the > external unit my audio is indistinguishable from a FT-1000D or TS-870 both > using 10db of compression. I just cannot duplicate this with the software. > I wonder if the guys at Flex realize that the processing is lacking? If not > it may never improve. If so I'll wait patiently for an improvement. > Frank, WA3JBT. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070530/e78785e2/attachment.html > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
