is a desktrac repeater capable of audio compression?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laryn Lohman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:41 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
