One of my many admirers, no doubt.
I was known for my good audio, but it was mostly Boomer's transmitter(built in limiter/compressor) and day's of work to tailor the audio for the show. Fearless Fred taught me that. Ran it through an EQ and then through Cool Edit Pro to get the bandwidth right for the tx and take the negative peaks out of the audio. By the time I aired a show I'd heard it or 15-20 times. It's why I relayed other op's, after all that work I was bored with what I was going to air that night. BTW, all my show's were one off's. I never repeated any of them.
Knowing what your transmitter can handle is the key to good audio, IMO. It's my main complaint about SSB, the bandwidth is too narrow. You can't get good hi-fi audio,10 plus khz. wide, out of it. Wolverine has the best SSB audio I've ever heard, but I bet he's modified his transceiver six way's from Sunday and has a method to tweak his audio for it. It's a lot of work to get it right.
Leave this here or move it, Shortwave. Most of it is common sense, but if it can help someone, put it where it can be seen.