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17th Jun 2019, 10:21 am | #41 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
I was listening to Pick Of The Pops on Radio 2 on Saturday. The volume was low overall and Paul Gambaccini's voice sounded echoey, like it was phasing. The records/CDs sounded much the same.
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17th Jun 2019, 9:20 pm | #42 | |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
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For anyone in the know: would that programme have been live, or pre-recorded? If live: would off-air monitoring be routinely done in the studio? For that matter: is it done for recorded programmes? The low overall volume is a puzzle. I'd expect the audio processors at the TX sites to feature slow broadband AGC, which would compensate for a low-level audio feed. Perhaps the BBC use just one processor for the whole network and the problem(s) crept in further down the chain. |
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18th Jun 2019, 9:01 am | #43 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
I. too, was listening to Pick of the Pops last Saturday (15th. June) enjoying the hits of my youth (1964). Here in N. Oxon, the sound quality and volume level, both of Paul Gambaccini's voice and of the records, was, to me, perfectly .K. I was listening to the FM transmission from Sutton Coldfield on my Sony receiver and indoor ribbon aerial
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18th Jun 2019, 9:06 pm | #44 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
AFAIK, Pick of the Pops is a live programme. I was listening in West Yorkshire on 89.3 Mhz, most likely from Holme Moss. This is the only occasion I have considered the received sound to be substandard.
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18th Jun 2019, 10:36 pm | #45 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
Just noticed a typo in my post, which should read 'and....was, to me, perfectly O.K.', but I guess most readers would have realized what I meant!!!
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9th Jul 2019, 10:43 pm | #46 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
Re the use of ISDN, I know that Radio 5Live's weekly link up with Dr Karl in Australia (between 3-4 am Thursdays) uses ISDN as presenter Rhod Sharp has referred to it on the past. However, Rhod lives in the USA so I don't know how that link-up to Britain works.
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13th Jul 2019, 8:08 am | #47 |
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Re: BBC "Sound"
My understanding is OB went to contractors and the standards fell through the floor.
BBC Engineering standards were at one time second to none, even though they didn't pay technical staff well.
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