TheSonicTruth
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Most radio stations, commercial ones at least, broadcast at 100 percent or more of their FCC-allowed modulation in order to 'stand out ' on the band, so to speak. They accomplish this via a varity of processors - either separate EQs, compressors, limiters, exciters, etc, or an all in one, such as one of Orban's.
If, as a theoretical station owner/manager, I chose a more conservative route, with minimal processing and no more than 2-4 dB of final limiter, resulting in my transmitter hitting its FCC-mandated modulation ceiling only about 80-90 percent of the time, preserving more of the original sound of both the records I play and the voices of my announcers, is there any issue with doing things that way, vs. the 'slammed to the walls' route?
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Most radio stations, commercial ones at least, broadcast at 100 percent or more of their FCC-allowed modulation in order to 'stand out ' on the band, so to speak. They accomplish this via a varity of processors - either separate EQs, compressors, limiters, exciters, etc, or an all in one, such as one of Orban's.
If, as a theoretical station owner/manager, I chose a more conservative route, with minimal processing and no more than 2-4 dB of final limiter, resulting in my transmitter hitting its FCC-mandated modulation ceiling only about 80-90 percent of the time, preserving more of the original sound of both the records I play and the voices of my announcers, is there any issue with doing things that way, vs. the 'slammed to the walls' route?
Thank you for reading my question.
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