[BC] Achieving good S/N

[khcs@juno.com]

Steve recalled:

>Hi Mark:

There was an AM station in San Francisco in the 60's with the call letters
KSOL. (actually it goes back further than the 60's as KSAN which became the
underground FM station with LOTSA history) . We were continuously amazed
with the amount of compression they used. (more like shocked) We were always
in fear that if the jock (one of them being Sly Stone...yes of the Family
Stone) stopped talking he would be sucked through the mic, into the
transmitter and thrown out the tower! <g> I can still hear that sucking
sound!

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Could very well have been a Gates Sta-Level.  It would do something like that.  If the jock had several seconds of dead air and then hit the mic key, there would be a loud "whomp" from having the compressor wide open.  No gating at all.  That would come later, with the CBS Audimax.


Glen Kippel
KHCS
Palm Desert, CA