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From: | Marcus D. Leech |
Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap! |
Date: | Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:19:21 -0500 |
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On 02/19/2012 01:08 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
So, on a related topic, how do commercial FM-MPX receivers maintain proper balance between L-R and L+R -- do they just have a gain control that they tweak at the factory and glue in place?I find quite the opposite, 60's bands will sometimes have the most stereo separation. When stereo recording came out they made the most of it, they would put whole instruments on just one channel, it would make you feel like you are in the middle of the band. Then the 70's "wall-of-sound" came out and it started to be had to pull generated instruments to one side without ruining the effect. Now its all just mono again. In this digital age its kinda strange we still use analog modulation. If it were digital, and there was not L-R information it would just encode the one signal better, not wasting information and bandwidth like FM.
If the gain balance is off, separation starts to go to heck really quickly. And obviously, you can't use AGC, since that would cause a lot of noise to be injected when the L-R channel was mostly zero.
-- Marcus Leech Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org
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