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optimizing audio to send to WBCQ

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Pigmeat:
I had the WBCQ engineer tell me not to sweat it too much when I was considering it saying that Weiner was always changing things when it came to the audio.

Tailoring your audio to the transmitter is much more crucial when pirating because a great majority of the transmitters/ transceivers aren't set up for broadcasting, What sounds great after you laid the show down may sound like pure crap when you feed it into a tx/tcvr  that doesn't have the audio bandwidth to handle it despite mods to the thing. That's when it gets both tricky and frustrating.

Do you know the guy who does Radio Free Euphoria? He really knows his stuff when it comes to tailoring his audio to the different tx'es and stations that relay him. If you're that concerned about how you're going to sound on WBCQ, he's the man to talk to.

TheRelayStation:

--- Quote from: Brian on June 25, 2018, 1509 UTC ---Don't optimise the audio at all.
If you want, normalise it  but leave the optimising to the station.

--- End quote ---
i agree with this statement.
further processing your audio will not make it sound better on any commercial SWBC station.
your voice-overs may sound fine to you when you play them back but once it is on a commercial SWBC station, it may sound much different.
many commercial SWBC stations try to "squeeze" as much audio into the usable modulation bandwidth as they possibly can but not as bad as commercial FM stations do.
normalizing it is the best method when sending your content to a SWBC station.

Josh:
Just send them as clean a wav or other lossless compression audio file as possible, than you've done all you can.

SevenTrees:
Send them this, It will definitely work...

For what it's worth, there's a lot of us that aren't bigoted and know the Earth's not flat, so maybe my brand is at least the lesser of evils even if I'm just crazy... I dunno.

Also make sure you compress that audio as much as possible.  Thanks in advance.

False prophets are not always obvious. At first they appear to be credible. However if they are allowed access to the flock, they can do incredible damage.

Azimuth Coordinator:
Every Commercial Station has a rack of processing ahead of the transmitter  including compression limiting, peak limiting, bandwidth limiting.  So you should make your recording as Clean as possible don't use any compression or other limiting just clean audio with full bandwidth with peaks at 0vu  in Wav or FLAC  MP3's are tricky because they don't decode as good as you would think..  And some processing doesn't help with that..

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