rlm@ms_aspen.hac.COM (R. L. McMillin) (06/28/91)
Kenneth Brownfield (brownfld@uiuc.edu) writes: > What I meant was severely compressed. A local top-40 station compresses >the _Hell_ out of their stuff, and it sounds disgusting and blah. Drums on >the station sound similar to Rocket's Tail, although not as bad. I didn't >take into account that you couldn't read my mind. :-) Well, what did you expect? Especially given the limited bandwidth on FM stations, and the even more limited bandwidth on AM stations, compression is a necessity. Given the dynamic range of Kate's stuff, I would expect that they automatically turn the compressors/limiters all the way up... As for Jon Drukman's comment, "Compression is used on practically everything," I suggest you take a listen to Telarc CDs. Don't think I've ever heard a one that was compressed.