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While BBP does a great job of making you the loudest signal on the dial, it’s also very good on the other end of the scale.
Here’s an example of a station that consciously stayed away from all forms of stream processing for years. They play recordings that date from old cylinder records, through 78s, 45’s, 33s, CDs and a few live performances. In short, pretty much every kind of recording you can imagine.
The goal here was to control, not to squash. Everyone was very pleased with the result. The tough part was talking them into it.
neat station. it’s peaking at around -6dB most of the time, but seems proper considering how smashed the recordings are that you’re playing (not a misspeak)… in case a track with more dynamics plays, you’ll have enough headroom for the detail. long as the loudness stays the same, that’s all that counts.
on another note, i wonder what this stuff sounds like through Undo?
They’ve had some problems with the DSL that feeds all this. It’s a rural phone company, so the fix is going slow. They’ll get there, I think.
The music represents just about every recording scheme I’ve ever heard of, so other than a passing attempt to keep levels relatively consistent when they transferred them, quality is random. About the only thing we don’t see there is the highly clipped audio they’re putting on a lot of current CDs.
Before BBP, they were playing the files straight into the streamer, no processing at all, with predictable results.
This is Rustonium, range 25, power 50, speed 23 & drive -1.5, no pre-emph & rarely hits clipping. I have Shoutcast DSP running as an encoder in BBP.
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