[EAS] No such thing as too much compression

[Kluger, Michael]

Your message just flashed me back to a GM that I once worked for.  His only technical concern was that he wanted our station to be the loudest one in the market.  It didn't matter to him whether we were the best sounding.  It didn't matter to him whether we had the cleanest audio.  All that he cared about was whether or not we were the loudest.

And then, of course, there are those who think that the compression at a rock station is not set up correctly if the modulation meter ever moves even slightly off of 100 per cent.  :-(

Mike (stopping now before we get too far off of the topic of EAS)

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Bill Ruck

In the Great State of California on the very Left Coast the audio

that the state provides has at least 100 dB of compression with a

noise-to-signal ratio of dB's.  And on a good day only slightly clipped.

There appears to be no audiophiles in the radio shop.

Or people that know how to set levels on carrier.

Bill Ruck

Curmudgeon

NCFCC