Listening to 1Xtra tonight (RAM Takeover on Bailey's show), noted there was a ~1dB discrepancy between L and R channels (L +1dB) on the online stream. Is there any kind of public-facing address or webform which actually eventually gets to BBC engineers so they can investigate any potential dodgy wiring or imbalances in station signal paths? I thought it might've been a dodgy mixer or CDJ interconnect / RCA cable, but as Bailey's show changed the audio imbalance is still present in the stream so it looks like there's something going on further down the signal chain which is affecting the playout signal.
Hardly a world-ending problem, but I can hear the off-centre pan! Very annoying. ;-) And yeah, already verified my internal balance and machine settings are fine. Any pointers Beeb insiders? (incidentally - the encoding quality of the dubstep podcast MP3s is dire - listen to Mistajam speaking and all the phasing and artifacts! Link to a sample podcast: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/1xtra/mistajam/mistajam_20110725-1900a.m p3 The same problem used to happened with iPlayer-encoded MP3s of radio shows before they 'retired' the format... Are the Beeb using some wacko nonstandard encoder for what I can only presume are AAC->MP3 transcodes? ffmpeg can do the same thing with far better quality!) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
