BARNARD wrote:
BTW, following up on Joe Gracey's comments on the sound quality and nature
of these files, I have a related question for Joe or others who know,
regarding radio broadcast...
That is: do radio broadcasts add compression to the recording being
broadcast? In listening to
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, in the great old days of Top 40 AM radio,.. the records weren't
really compressed much if at all in recording or mastering, just peak
limited to keep the needle from bouncing around in the groove, so we ran
everything on the air through those old glorious tube compressors at a
pretty hefty
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And as Barry said, this is indeed one of those missing elements when
people talk about how different older recordings sounded. It's not the
just vinyl-vs-CD and analog-vs-digital matters once hears about most
often, but also this habit of putting lotso compression on
BTW, following up on Joe Gracey's comments on the sound quality and nature
of these files, I have a related question for Joe or others who know,
regarding radio broadcast...
That is: do radio broadcasts add compression to the recording being
broadcast? In listening to various recordings on the
In my immense experience - i.e., 2 stations - some do, some don't. WOBO
does, WYSO doesn't. When you don't, it's hell on those broadcasters who
tend to use volume rather than pitch for emphasis and inflection
- not that I know that from my immense experience, of course, but I have
this
