Our little one-studio station currently operates fine using a Soundcraft analogue radio desk, but, we're looking to change our way of operation. Basically, we'd like to be able to have remote studios, effectively in people's homes. These homes will be connected using no more than a VPN over the inte...

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Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:13 pm

AM talk morning show interviews and phone calls.

For that kind of use the dbx will be just fine. It's done all the time with this kind of tool in live and conference settings. Talk is different to full programme material where a multiband excels.

Although the dbx compressors are great tools, they are probably the wrong shaped tools for the job you want.

This is a compressor intended to be inserted in the channel of a mixer for a single instrument, not a compressor intended to tame an entire mix.

Instead of typing <ip address>, type http://<ip address>

If one goes to http://nautel.com and click "NUG sign-in" at the top of every page, and then register, one gets access to a coverage calculator, which knows about terrain, and thus can give you an attempt at seeing where you can reach from where you might want to transmit from.

Thanks; the Marti SCD/SGC pair look the ticket, and BE still appear to make them!!! Or, at least, they are not listed as discontinued.

Funnily enough I have a Metrosonic receiver...

Conventional SCA encoders/ decoders still widely available, using 67 Khz subcarrier--with DTMF tones Help me out here, TPT; could you name a couple of brands? My google fu is failing to find anything at all. Edited to ad: it's the SCA bit I'm having trouble with, DTMF encoders and decoders not so m...

Here is a hardware solution. It decodes DTMF itself and specifically mentions commercial insertion in it's propaganda sheet. DEVA Broadcast DB8000 You posted whilst I was writing... This will make you laugh. I like the Deva stuff, we've got a couple of their DB7000s. I've looked at their solutions ...

For the most part, not legal--unless you are outside the U.S. Yes, am outside the US; I've not looked at the licence docs, but I've had it suggested to me that what we have is multiple transmit licences, so we could in theory produce a completely different programme for each transmit location and b...

Our little station is about to have a small collection of translators (the first was supposed to be online May 1st...) and I've had this idea that with some jiggery pokery i could have different adverts playing at each translator, the same way that some national stations split up into regions for ad...

Yeah, rent (or invest in) a SDS drill, which is the answer for knocking holes in masonry. So much better than a "standard" drill with a hammer mode.

And safety glasses. And ear defenders. Though strangely SDS drilling is much quieter than old school hammer.

Here's a link to a Crawford Broadcasting engineering newsletter that discusses the possible issue. Does sound suspiciously like what you're suffering, doesn't it? If the PPM encoders were screwing over EAS tones, every station in the land would be screaming, but they're not (I presume...?) so it mu...

The EAS "tones" seem to make it through the system in that they can be heard on air. But EAS decoders (multiple SAGE units, and possibly other brands) can't seem to decode them "off air" after they pass through the AXIA system. This is a long-shot, but I wonder if it is a similar issue to trying to...

We've just ordered a couple of TR300s for translator sites, and a TX1000 as a main TX backup, so I hope these are isolated incidents.

I've had email conversations with BW, and they seem to be responsive people, so maybe give them a call...?

On the cheap? Well, you could wire each mic in parallel to each room/small mixer. My first thought too. If there are no reasons why you cant do this, it would certainly (in an analogue world) be the easiest and most cost-effective way. Possible technical problems include mics that require phantom p...