ABSTRACT

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 overmodulation. 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.