[BC] Achieving good S/N

[Robert Meuser]

Kevin Tekel wrote:
> Bob Orban wrote:
> 
>>It replaced a Gates pre-emphasized clipper (I forget what its actual
>>marketing name was) that splattered on every "ess." The Gates only
>>lasted a week on-air before I sent it back.
> 
> 
> I have one of those.  It's the Solid Statesman FM Limiter.  Yes, it sends
> pre-emphasized audio right into a wideband diode clipper.  When I had one
> in on-air service I modified it to place the pre-emphasis ahead of the
> broadband limiter (with a speeded-up recovery time).  To me the HF
> "ducking" was more tolerable than the brute-force clipping, at least on
> pre-Disco-era music.

I know what Bob was talking about, I had one too and the name escapes me as 
well. It was not the Solid Statesman.

R