radio anpi awaz on dab

[radionortheast]

Wondering about this as it was mentioned anpi was a pirate before it became fever, fever has gone from dab, but i’ve noticed theres a station there called anpi awaz on dab, thought it might be fever under a new name, looks like it is based in bradford no relation.

[Frequent Lee]

The majority of the Asian stations in Leeds and Bradford are operated by a circle of friends to circumvent the restriction on how many times a person can apply for an RSL so it's often same people on the station just under a different Station Name. Now that SSDAB is affordable they've opened a handful of services that mostly churn out pre recorded content.

[radionortheast]

I think there 2 stations still have medium wave transmitters, I heard some were that there was a fight between the operator of an ssdab network, another asian station in charge they refused to go on it, there must be audience there on medium wave listening to them for them to stay there, 909 and 1089 are probably the only other stations people are listening to.
I suppose a similar thing has happened else were with other community stations that are in competition with each other, those stations were more like local radio old 90's commercial stations, don't want to go on maybe have a problem with the other station operator been in charge, a chink in the armour of these small scale dab. I do wonder myself if the wakefield dab one will get readvertised it failed to come on air, it just hope it dosen't jam out the leeds one if it does, interesting see what comes on there. There is a student station has come on the Leeds one, its not that good though lot of talking, can't get into the music because of the talking, allstar radio I think its called

[ehsanspicedigital]

don’t know if you lot know qamar. he runs both marefa & apni awaz. he was another one to announce “crystal clear quality and no crackles” and then listening to his output…. its like he's sending his stream from headphones over a mic. like comeon if your going to go on air atleast do it properly. ZaraRadio and Virtual audio cable going into BuTT would be miles better. There’s absoloute 0 chance of him having any sort of hardware processor or agc on his stream. He needs to spend a bit of the money he’s making…..

[Frequent Lee]

don’t know if you lot know qamar. he runs both marefa & apni awaz. he was another one to announce “crystal clear quality and no crackles” and then listening to his output…. its like he's sending his stream from headphones over a mic. like comeon if your going to go on air atleast do it properly. ZaraRadio and Virtual audio cable going into BuTT would be miles better. There’s absoloute 0 chance of him having any sort of hardware processor or agc on his stream. He needs to spend a bit of the money he’s making…..

I'm available for freelance jobs setting up any audio systems for broadcasting purposes. I've supplied a few broadcast audio processing computer setups using breakaway with my own configuration not the standard default settings, they sound as good as a £20,000 Omnia hardware unit to the uneducated listener.

Akash on the Leeds and Bradford dab sounds like it's being related down a bit of wet string. Appalling. Feeding the dab from a medium wave tuners signal. Amateurs and they own the licence for the multiplexes too

[ehsanspicedigital]

don’t know if you lot know qamar. he runs both marefa & apni awaz. he was another one to announce “crystal clear quality and no crackles” and then listening to his output…. its like he's sending his stream from headphones over a mic. like comeon if your going to go on air atleast do it properly. ZaraRadio and Virtual audio cable going into BuTT would be miles better. There’s absoloute 0 chance of him having any sort of hardware processor or agc on his stream. He needs to spend a bit of the money he’s making…..

they sound as good as a £20,000 Omnia hardware unit to the uneducated listener.

If your going to be broadcasting you should at least spend a little bit of money on your equipment. Dance Asia is running an Orban Optimod 6300 which is basically the industry standard for DAB audio processing, Same here we're on the east lancs MUX by the name Spice Digital and we have the same processor. The biggest problem is people using computer's integrated sound cards to send their stream to the MUX. Again. spend some money lol. Sonifex PS-Sends units can be obtained from eBay for about £250-400 now if you keep an eye and its probably one of the best encoders I've used in terms of the sound quality etc. Its what's in use in a lot of studios nowadays.

[Frequent Lee]

There is absolutely ZERO need to spend big bucks on a hardware unit when the software pc based ones use the exact same dsp core as Omnia, the same person, Leif Claesson wrote and designed the Omnia 9 software that's identical to the hardware unit and Telos Alliance liked it so much they bought Leif and his software for exclusive rights.

Their website even calls the computer based software a flagship product and it uses a cheap as fuck Cirrus Logic DSP chip that's identical to the cheap usb Chinese soundcards.

[Frequent Lee]

A pc based processing setup will absolutely piss all over the orban 6300 all day long. The 6300 is a bottom end all in one unit for budget setups costing around £1700 and isn't comparable to the Omnia software at all.

[Frequent Lee]

Final note , a sonifex ps send does nothing that a £50 dell pc can't do, it's simply a plug and play box marketed to people who are not educated at configuration of a pc and how to effectively configure the audio codecs such as AAC+ to give superb results using low bit rates basically.

[ehsanspicedigital]

i wouldn’t trust a pc in a 24 hour configuration. I have crazy presets for breakaway and stereo tool, but chose myself not to run a computer for streaming or processing. imo hardware units more reliable in a 365 setup. and besides if something goes wrong and a pc does shut down theres no on here at the station with technical knowledge to fix it. i wasn’t stupid when i spent money on the units.

just on phone with kaloo while writing this up. kaloo said he has to give it to you. you know your stuff technical wise.

[radionortheast]

Akash on the Leeds and Bradford dab sounds like it's being related down a bit of wet string. Appalling. Feeding the dab from a medium wave tuners signal. Amateurs and they own the licence for the multiplexes too

Knowing what boxes to tick, long history with it, might of had phone quality, low volume or maybe a different one, it was that way for a while, 1323 and 1413 are still on air, am transmitters, am transmitters do sound really bad when your on top of them, you get high voltage off something less than a watt too.

Alot broadcast stations where into orban optimod I think they released software based stuff that was over expensive, I thought about it myself, making something small sound big, I though against it, would of been over kill, your paying for a name. For people getting into broadcasting, looking for hardware behringer ones seem to be recommended, I did think about trying one, I though it might do less than what software can do. Years ago I had an nrg limiter, I was only relaying dab stations through it, sounded top notch.

I’ve only dealth with sound solution, stereo tool, sound solution would have more treble in it, you did have an eg you could disable. Stereo tool had more mid range to it, you can turn stuff off in it, get more dynamic range, risk of not doing its job, some of those things are needed.

Pcs stuff had dsp processor in it, it silghtly reduced dynamic range, but didn’t do much for keeping the volume at the correct level, your better off get standarn encoder, doing all the processing through a pc. I think theres also a problem with expensive stuff, you could repair something simple like a voltage regulator, even an rf device, their often bonded to the surface, with a heat gun, if theres anything more wrong with it would have to go back to the manufacturers. Something like an nrg pro likely more easly repairable.
Having lots of different boxes processors, there a lot that could wrong, more complex to find out what the problem is, not forced to work forever. Obviously if you have something that is going through more than one processor, got something that dosen’t do much but is altering the dynamdic range, you’d want it to as close to the original as possible. Mp3’s I often find now are compressed, if your source material is compressed, if will require alot more set up I think, don’t want something that is mondo aggressive as it will likely be unforgiving of it, don't think I know as much about this as you guys anyway.

[Frequent Lee]

Sound solution was the first software thing I used for Frequency. It gave great results using the tweaked orban optimod clone preset.

Then I went to the innovonics software a version of the David 3 hardware unit.

Stereotool was too much involvement and at the time required a high end pc to get it working optimally so I settled into breakaway along with Airomate rds running on a pc direct into the rooftop rig on the block with a 3g dongle and it sounded awesome as there was zero processing in the studio just a raw direct 96kbs AAC+ encoded stream from the studio via double hop shoutcast servers to mask the studio IP address etc

[radionortheast]

You did need an expensive fire wire card to get airomate working rds, stereo tool think it was the sample rates with these things, internal/external cards couldn’t do it, the further back you go, encoding stereo rds, get stuttering maybe

[Frequent Lee]

I still buzz off setting up analogue limiters etc, my autism likes a box with wires n shit in to study how they work. The software stuff for pirate radio I was first on it pretty much in UK. I tutored other big station managers who I knew well and weaned them in in basic terms, ie I'd set them a pc up with the necessary stuff but configure key functions to admin only level so they couldn't fuck about too much.

Few London stations, Birmingham usual suspects Sting etc with The Fresh FM Leeds link up.

Internet and shoutcast studio was the golden ticket to no more big bucks studio equipment losses so we could kit them out really good with touchscreen jingles stuff and Pioneer CDJs.

I would confidently claim that Frequency FM was the best sounding major pirate in the UK from 2008 thru 2014.

When we had the big dubstep and D&B djs up to play at events they couldn't believe the audio was so good. They played on Flex FM, Rinse Kool etc. Kool got their audio improvements via me and our rig builder.

Strongest pirate ever to come out of Yorkshire too 100%

I could write a book about the Yorkshire pirate radio scene in the 1980d and 90s especially. I've done it all.

[radionortheast]

I have exstream social anxiety, always found this stuff, distracting something to focus on.
Would of been interesting to have a book, I have london’s pirate radio pioneers and pirate radio dispatches, their both mostly about london stations in the 80’s though, I do like a century of irish radio better, their not skimping on stations from the 90’s either, interesting finding out about pirate radio else were.

There was a really good website lately, it stopped when you got to the 90’s dxarchive, does seem to be always the thing. Would of been interesting to have a book about stations up north. I do get excited when I hear the places mentioned in the song its grim up north even though its ancient its mentioning places we know.
Theres afew articles on sheffield pirates, I found some pictures of the blocks from the 80’s. Interesting all the music shops around them too, there was the listening booth in leeds wrack of wax, the shops in sheffield.

https://trackhunter.co.uk/blog/confessi ... -radio-dj/

https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/low- ... heyday-of/

https://undeleted.wordpress.com/dream-fm/

Quite a few articles about Martin Leverton who you’d often hear on sheffield stations out there too, pretty much would move heaven and earth to listen him. I was day dreaming about a book, you’d have a full page spread on him, then Jason Taylor, what stations they’d been on.