[peel] Re: My Peel Sessions

[Stuart]

I always knew that FM was compressed but there was something about the
method used around about that time that also introduced distortion overload,
and the compression itself seemed "enhanced"
I submitted a fresh complaint when the same studio compression as used on FM
was applied to digital feeds of the station such as DSat DTT and DAB, where
the audio level had no impact upon the audibility at greater distances.

-----Original Message-----
From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Alasdair Macdonald
Sent: 11 April 2011 13:28
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: My Peel Sessions

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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> From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
dgmccarthy
> Sent: 11 April 2011 00:56
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.


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