Electronics geek, phone phreak, whiteboard enthusiast, broadcasting nerd, amateur photographer, general troublemaker
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A Walk through a Broadcast Audio Processor
Recently, CSR FM have aquired a Soundweb London BLU-100 (which I’ve raved about in the previous post). Amongst the myriad of things which it can do, it can also do some quite complex signal processing. Currently, the CSR FM airchain goes from program output (via a switcher), to a DSPXmini FM processor – which processes [...]
I <3 Soundweb London
NOTE: This is most definitely not a tutorial, I’m mostly making it up as I go along. So, yeah – recently my radio station has acquired a rather lovely BSS Audio London Soundweb BLU-100. It’s a “sound management” device, which (on the main unit) has 12 inputs (6 stereo) and 8 outputs (4 stereo), as [...]
Unnecessary Maths: My Milkshakes Bring Over a Million Boys to the Yard
Canterbury is home to the Shake Shed, an awesome little shop that sells delicious milkshakes. They will make you a shake with anything from chocolate chip cookies to sherbert lemon, to strawberry jam to Star mix – and you can have up to 3 flavours. Not only that, they’ll do it with a smile! One [...]
Unnecessary Maths: McDonalds Marketing
So I was in McDonalds today (lets not go into why) and found a piece of marketing that included some numbers. It said McDonald’s Litter patrols cover over 120,000 miles every year in the UK and Ireland. We are about the environment! (or something to that effect) I decided to break this down a bit. [...]
CSR FM Tech Blog
So, I decided that CSR Technical Services needed a blog. So now it does! Here’s a copy of my first post there, about the recent issues we’ve had with the Station Switcher Here at CSR, we have a number of different places which we might want to broadcast from. For example, we have two studios [...]