Nate, your comments about compression and bad-sounding audio coming in from IRLP just goes to show, at least in part, that improperly set-up compression/AGC sounds bad.
For several years, I ran an Alesis 3630 on the audio coming in from IRLP and feeding our local repeater transmitter. I had it set for 3 second release (the slowest it would do), fastest attack it would do, around 12db of gain reduction, and around 6:1 ratio. It sounded absolutely fine, with no wierd stuff, no pumping, nothing obvious at all. Only consistent, good-level audio. It <can> work and sound great. And there's really nothing inherently different betweeen audio from IRLP and audio from your local receiver feeding your repeater transmitter. As I stated in an earlier post, the RC850 has internal AGC, and when properly set up, also works very well with few artifacts. I think where it begins to sound bad is when the release time gets too short. That's when any background noise instantly sucks-up between words, and quickly becomes ugly-sounding. Laryn K8TVZ
