[BC] Modualtion Monitors (do we need them?)

[Chuck Lakaytis]

The sad thing is, most broadcasters simply do not care about audio quality.

Even in Anchorage most of the stations sound terrible.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 301 4339 (cell)


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Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Modualtion Monitors (do we need them?)

 Well I guess I'm just an old fogie but as a retired BC eng who has been out
of the biz a while I can't believe how lax the commission has become.  In my
day to operate without a freq and mod monitors was unthinkable.  In fact, I
usually had two- one to check the other.

   And while I'm at it, I can't tell you how much I hate modern day audio
processing.  It sounds like every station has a modulation range between
80-100%.   I have to listen to CDs to hear music with any realistic dynamic
range now a days.  Today's broadcasters don't understand that when you
compress the hell out of music it becomes bland and fatiguing.

- Nat Kayle
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