CHAPTER 3.8 Transmission Audio Processing
ROBERT ORBAN
Orban/CRL Tempe, Arizona
FRANK FOTI
Omnia Audio, A Telos Systems Company Cleveland, Ohio
INTRODUCTION
Transmission audio processing is both an engineering and artistic discipline. The engineering goal is to make the most efficient use of the signal-to-noise ratio and audio bandwidth available from the transmission channel while preventing its overmodula-tion. The artistic goal is set by the organization using audio processing. It may be to avoid audibly modifying the original program material at all, or it may be to create a distinct sonic signature for a broadcast by radically changing the sound of the original. Most broadcasters operate somewhere in between these two extremes.
If the transmitted ...
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