Good Article - What Happens to Your Recording on the Radio

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a sort of relevant rambling ...

In conclusion, the article's author urges record companies to "Let the broadcast processor do its work."

A firsthand experience with radio broadcast processing: A band I'm in recently was interviewed at, and had songs from our demo played on, a local commercial station. I was told by people listening that it sounded great ... what I heard in the control room seemed to be a case of the processing adding more life to our amateurish demo than what I was able to mix in there myself ... and a tape of the broadcast (although somewhat degraded as it was a tape of a radio broadcast) seemed to display the bigger bass and some crispness in the sound not on the orginal CD.

I mean, it still sounded like a demo to me, but at least a BETTER demo. :)

IMHO, You can totally tell the difference in quality when a station plays a new song, then something, say, 20 years old right after that. Sound quality is actually clearer most the time on older stuff. I wonder if listening fatigue induced by this sonic hyping is what makes me channel-surf and ultimately not respond to most new music, or if I really am getting old and just thinking most new (commercial) music sucks .... :(
 
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