A few years ago, Radio two had a series of old in concerts from the 70s and
80s. I had these recorded at the time on a fairly early dbx equipped
cassette deck on 120 tapes by tdk.
The repeats directly from the radio sounded far worse than my recordings.
One particularly by Kiki dee had one track with some hum on it and it was
the same level throughout on the old recording, on the rebroadcast it was
all over the place slowly rising while the acoustic guitars played and
ducking when the vocals came in.
All I can say is that if somebody made a good job of the original, what is
the need for passing it through a mangler compressor again.

As for the talk stations. It seems to vary on different outputs of the
station, and I notice that fm and dab are often better than freeview and
certainly better than the internet feed.
again, why process them differently?

My guess is that there are these badly set up devices in most transmitter
sites and all the feed does is wind the level up and let the last ditch
compressor handle it with dire consequences.

Brian

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Brian-Gaff wrote:
Well, there is sensible compression and there is ridiculously high
compression, and badly set up compression, Is talk sport listening?]

Radio 1 and many other pop orientated stations use a form of
compression that almost seems to end up with a straight line of level.
R2 do this sometimes and at others seem to use a kind of gain riding
system that gradually winds the level up akin to a cheap recorder.
Brian

The argument for this heavy compression tends to be car listening. Yet I
seem to manage hearing what I want to in the cars on R4 which doesn't do
this. And the heavy compression that LBC etc use simply puts me off ever
listening to them.

As I get older and my hearing deteriorates, it's even more obvious to me
that only R4 (speech wise) come close to getting things right on most
occasions. Much of TV seems to have lost the plot totally. And that's
listing on the same audio chain for both.

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