[BC] Budget FM processor

[Glen Kippel]

Yes, by "not as good" I meant that they may not have the amount of
flexibility to give you precisely the sound you may want -- but then you may
also have to be very picky about your sound.  KHCS has been running a CRL
Amigo, certainly not a $10,000 box, which has been trucking along for 14
years and is certainly adequate for the task.  I didn't want to have a huge
amount of processing, as I prefer a more "open" sound, and it does that.  I
also put in an Inovonics box at KUBO in El Centro, and was happy with it.
Maybe if you are in an extremely competitive situation where you need to
spend the extra money, but going from $3,000 to $10,000 for a processor is
like the difference between $30,000 or $100,000 for a car.  The one will get
you where you want to go just as well as the other, but the more expensive
one may have more features.  You pays your money and takes your choice.

On 2/19/07, cld at admin.umass.edu <cld at admin.umass.edu> wrote:
>
> I think what Glen means (forgive me Glen if I'm off base), but I think
> what he
> means is that they are inexpensive (comparatively) but also limited.
> However
> there are applications where they perform very, very well.
>
> You cannot do a lot in terms of tailoring the sound, but they provide for
> some
> nice peak limiting and AGC.
>
> Chuck Dube
> Amherst
>
>
> From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Budget FM processor
>
> Inovonics makes some processors that work pretty well.  Maybe they're not
> as
> good as an Optimod (R) but they don't cost as much, either.
>
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