[BC] Gates Sta-Level

[Robert Meuser]

Robert Orban wrote:
> At 01:46 PM 12/27/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> From: Bob Groome <bobgroome at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [BC] Gates Sta-Level
>> To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>> Somebody can check me on this: believe
>> it was CHUM that had the idea and implemented it
>> to split the audio into two bands, run through
>> two wide band AGC's, combine them and then
>> throught the limiter for a really loud station
>> sound. The birth of the multiband audio
>> processing scheme that led to Dorough DAP, CRL,
> 
> 
> Actually, I believe that was Ed Butterbough at CKLW.
> 
> Bob Orban


Ed was doing three band processing - a Yamaha crossover and LA-4 (I think) 
compressors followed by a solid statesman limiter. It was that way right up to 
the alpha (wire wrapped) version of the Gregg processor.

R