[BC] Shulke's Black Box

[Ron Cole]

I remember the Easy Listening days.

Does anyone know what was in the Schulke Black box.
At my station It was in the audio chain just before the 8100 and STL.
Not sure what it did, as it had potted audio circuits.

Ron


On 7/2/06, Rich Wood <<mailto:richwood at pobox.com>richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
------ At 11:06 PM 7/1/2006, Steve wrote: -------

In the days of Easy Listening there were several studies on listener
fatigue relating to processing and high end distortion, particularly
its effect on women. Jim Schulke of Schulke Radio Productions was a
huge proponent of gentle processing and avoidance of distortion.
Since virtually all his stations were dominant in their markets, it's
safe to say he was on to something. In taped syndication a major
selling point was audio quality. Syndicators boasted about 1:1
duplication vs. high speed. I don't believe you could tell a high
quality high speed copy from 1:1 on the air, but stations bought the concept.

As I recall, the studies were proprietary but the format was so
dominant that the successful stations simply took Jim's word as gospel.

I can only imagine Easy Listening today run through cascaded codecs.
The 101 Strings would be even greater torture than they were then.

Rich