Get your station sounding nice.

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Get your station sounding nice.

Post by radioman » Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:38 pm

This is all you need to get your sounding nice and loud without over modulating

Multicom pro xl mdx4600 the multi compressor.
Ultragraph pro FBQ 1502
Ultragraph pro FBQ 3102

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How we have it set up!
From mixer into channel 1 and 2 of the mdx4600 multi compressor into Ultragraph pro FBQ 1502 equalizer then back into the mdx4600 multi compressor using channel 3 and 4 for a second round of audio compression.
Then we finalize it by using a Ultragraph FBQ 3102 to get everything to sound nice :)

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by thewisepranker » Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:38 pm

radioman wrote:This is all you need to get your sounding nice and loud without over modulating

Multicom pro xl mdx4600 the multi compressor.
Ultragraph pro FBQ 1502
Ultragraph pro FBQ 3102
I don't agree!

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by Dai Pole » Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:19 pm

thewisepranker wrote:I don't agree!
This!

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by McDonalds » Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:48 pm

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by james_wilson16 » Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:24 am

Lol CZH. Sprogg box stylee

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by NOYB » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:02 pm

thewiseprankster is on the money again!
This kind of set-up is fine for non-broadcast sound re-inforcement, but for broadcast use you need something that properly controls the peaks. Also an early AGC stage - has your setup got that? Also it is strongly advisable to do processing and stereo encoding in one box - better, louder results.

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Post by chesney79 » Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:37 am

thewisepranker wrote:
radioman wrote:This is all you need to get your sounding nice and loud without over modulating

Multicom pro xl mdx4600 the multi compressor.
Ultragraph pro FBQ 1502
Ultragraph pro FBQ 3102
I don't agree!
I agree with thewisepranker on this. You don't need all that at all

If you got doe to put out there for that kit then fine

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by thewisepranker » Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:46 pm

I think you're missing the point - no amount of EQ and PA compression/limiting will prevent overmodulation.

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by james_wilson16 » Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:08 pm

I need to get some kind of audio compression maybe stereo encoding, but love the sound of mono, plus reduces the hiss over distance

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by thewisepranker » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:03 am

You can process your audio without being in stereo.

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by Dai Pole » Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:39 pm

In the PA world it is very very rare that you would use graphic EQ to boost anything, ever - “cut, not boost” is the mantra! The only way a graphic EQ would be used like that is if it were controlling the sidechain input of a compressor. Aside from the audio having to go through all that Behringer (I have nothing against Behringer, I use their DCX2496 all the time), it's never going to control overmodulation, for that you'll need a brickwall limiter.

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by Dai Pole » Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:49 pm

Had a read up on this compressor, seems to have have the ability to act as a brickwall limiter, so I might be wrong. Maybe I'm also wrong on how to control overmodulation too?! Fuck it. #everybodyknowsFBkeysonlycameoutinthe90s

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Re: Get your station sounding nice.

Post by NOYB » Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:38 am

Even if it does have a brickwall limiter it will not sound as loud/nice as a unit that does stereo encoding and limiting in one box. The one-box approach allows distortion-cancelling and removes ringing caused by 15kHz filters.

I previously thought the impact of two box approach was minimal until I tried it using a software processor (audio only) and the limiter in a BW TX50 - substantially quieter than I thought it would be. Thus now I always advise processing and MPX in one box (be that hardware or software solution).

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