[peel] Re: My Peel Sessions

[Alasdair Macdonald]

Audio broadcast over FM has always been compressed in this way
(reduced dynamic range). Doing so increases the range (ie distance
from the transmitter) at which the signal can be received.

BBC FM compression is nowhere near as awful sounding as many foreign
(especially U.S.) stations.

On 11 April 2011 12:26, Stuart <stuartb@...> wrote:
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> Wow I remember writing to the BBC at the time about the sound quality! This is confirmation that my ears weren’t deceiving me at the time.
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> What I remember complaining about was not only the intrusive dynamic compression (often when JP was warning us of a track that faded in, actually didn’t fade in much as the gain was turned up during the quiet start, then when the loud bit came in, the gain was reduced, but not before some audible distortion was heard.) I also remember some bass distortion continuing through some tracks. This is why, while I thought PJ Harvey and the Pixies sounded good on radio, once I got the vinyl LPs the dynamism was mindblowing.

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> Subject: [peel] Re: My Peel Sessions

> Cheers, Rocker. I'm in Sydney but, if it comes to it, sending the tapes back to their country of origin isn't a problem!
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> The shows are 20 & 21 November 1992 and I see on the WIKI that they are available, albeit incomplete. Mine would also be straight out of the desk in the broadcast studio so may have the edge in quality.
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> I recall this was during a period (give or take a couple of years) when R1 was messing around with the processing on the end of the broadcast chain and some of the off-air sound was a bit over-cooked.