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VP-8IP / Sep 2013
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G U R U
No one at a radio station listens more
critically to it than after the audio pro-
cessing is changed.
It can take many weeks or more to narrow
down the perfect sound for a station - even
more for a station in a major market.
Radio markets are moving targets – you
make a change, “they” make a change,
you make another change, “they” make
another change...
Expectations of sound improvement when
changing audio processors will almost
always surpass reality.
No one in the station’s audience hears
what “radio people” hear.
Changing to a more modern audio proces -
sor can make the station sound worse by
revealing previously masked problems in
the station’s audio chain.
There is almost never enough loudness,
bass, or high end.
There is no free lunch – you must always
pick something good to give up in order to
get something that you want even more.
The most important advice that we can share about setting up audio processing,
particularly new audio processing, is this:
Make small adjustments and listen over a long enough period of time that you get
to hear what your current settings sound like on most program material (you’ll never
have time to hear all ).
Resist the temptation to try to fix the processing for the one song that sounds bad.
Instead, try to determine why that cut sounds bad. If it’s the source material, fix it. If
not, then you can work on the processing. Too many get these processes reversed and
spend a lot of time tuning and tuning and still get nowhere.
The tweaking controls in Guru are located on the Adjust Sound tab of the GUI. On
this tab are four vertical sliders for “pro‑
cessing” and two knobs for “equalization.”
The image below shows how the Adjust
Sound tweakers appear….
Guru’s six tweakers were specifi‑
cally designed for manipulating Factory
presets, and each of the six controls has
eleven positions. If someone wanted to
know how many different sound settings
(preset iterations) that makes, it’s easy
math. Simply multiply eleven times
eleven, and do it six times (once for each
control). The resulting number represents
how many different sound textures that
could be made with one Factory preset –
the number is 1,771.561.
Tuning Audio Processing – an Introduction
During the many years we’ve spent designing, building, installing and tuning
audio processors in all kinds of broadcast facilities there are a few things that have
consistently been proven true. Since this seems like the perfect place to do it we’d like
to share some of them with you now:
Guru’s Six Adjust Sound Controls