Audio Processor

The Audio Processor is a very important piece of equipment, as it is usually the
last one you use before your audio is transmitted.
It improves and optimizes the sound quality or your Radio, thus giving
it a unique sound with its own character.
You may choose between several mood sounds such as jazz, pop, rock, classical, etc... or even create your
own sound.
Mainly designed for medium/small radios (local radio stations, community radios, web radios), the Audio
Processor combines ease of use, flexibility and robustness.
It is a combination of a multiband
compressor/limiter and a parametric equalizer together with other effects.
It compresses the overall dynamics of the program, but it is
also possible to increase the volume, because it prevents against
over-deviation, clipping and other saturations – all effects that create
distortion.
The final result will be a “louder” and “bigger" sound for your radio.
There is a psychological reason behind it: when searching on the radio dial, people stop to listen at the
radio that sounds louder, bigger and better –
and this increases your audience.
Analog or Digital
Audio Processors can be analog or digital.
An Analog audio processor directly alters the electric signal coming from the transmitter, before this goes through the amplifier(s) and ultimately reaches the speakers that will then project it as audio waves.
A Digital processor, on the other hand, intervenes in the digital representation – a sequence of symbols, usually binary numbers – of the signal.
Choosing between these two options is merely a question of the type of broadcasting that is intended.