[BC] Omnia.FM

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:01 PM 10/4/2009, Mark Earle wrote: -------

>Persuade him to go with a great, new sound - just run a limiter, let
>there be dynamic range, loud and soft passages, Require a human to ride
>levels and make things sound good :-)

I've been fighting the human level control system for many, many 
years. Be careful what you wish for. A proper human level seems to be 
when the meter needle wraps around the pin or there aren't nearly 
enough LEDs to display the actual level.

In the early FM days most operators came from AM. Now, in our quest 
for absolute loudness we've adopted "the processing will take care of 
it" approach. We might as well remove any level display from any 
audio equipment.

Besides, the record companies release CDs with waveforms that look 
like square waves. There goes any hope of dynamic range. Mostly bad 
talent reigns and big splotches of green on an editing screen doesn't 
give us much to work with in programming or engineering. These are 
the people who want a Performance Tax.

Rich