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"Dr.X" wrote:
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That would be fun..make a DR.X studio to go along with the
broadcast,
sorta
like Ghoulardi. Post the gratest hits and such. lol

WHOA!!!! Steveo! you're alright if you know who Ghoulardi was. lol

-Dr.X

Hell yea, that dude was from Cleveland! They still show him here every
now and again. Usually around Halloween, so that's where I got the
idea lately. Ernie Anderson, right?

Yeah, Ernie was the original. He was also the BEST.

-Dr.X

He went on to make million$ in voice overs.

The the golden throat of abc television. He is missed much.

-Dr.X

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That would be fun..make a DR.X studio to go along with the
broadcast,
...

Here's the difference between the "amature" radio operators and a
pro.

http://vpndns.com/dr.x.htm

-Dr.X

Is that you? That donut look like a CB to me, sir.

heh-heh... No it's not. It's a studio at a 75kw am radio station. I
sometimes have to laugh at the "amature radio ops" that come here to
tell everyone how it really is. I know better. ;-P

-Dr.X



and yes, that is me.

-Dr.X

I get a kick out of looking at gear, geek I suppose.

Get a haircut ya hippie. :)

"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Steveo" wrote in message
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That would be fun..make a DR.X studio to go along with the
broadcast,
...

Here's the difference between the "amature" radio operators and a
pro.

http://vpndns.com/dr.x.htm

-Dr.X

Is that you? That donut look like a CB to me, sir.

heh-heh... No it's not. It's a studio at a 75kw am radio station. I
sometimes have to laugh at the "amature radio ops" that come here to
tell everyone how it really is. I know better. ;-P

-Dr.X



and yes, that is me.

-Dr.X

I get a kick out of looking at gear, geek I suppose.

I'll get a pic of the transmitter for ya one of these dayz. Beleive it or
not, those two little black boxes in the back ground and the white box their
sitting on (an adtran and 2 codex's) gives me a link to two satellites in
orbit. WOO-HOO! Talk about skip!

Get a haircut ya hippie. :)

Can't do radio in WKRP style with short hair. . .yeah ok, hippie. :-)

-Dr.X

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:57:50 -0500, "Dr.X" wrote:

"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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From: (Dr.X)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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Did this work? Do this again, Dr. X,,,I'd like to get on and say hello
to my friends up north. Let me know a day or so in advance.

It worked very well. I want to tweak it a little

though. I don't know how many listeners it

takes to bring it down. It was set at a high

quality so I can picture serious lag if a lot of

people connect. I'll lower it a little and see if I

can get several people to log on at once. This

will give us a better picture of quality vs.

number of simultaneous connections. I'll let

you know when. I'm sure we'll be doing more

testing tonight and over the next few days if

we have time.

-Dr.X


Let me know..I want to wave a hand.


We'll be doing some testing tonight at 7 to see if low bit rates will still
sound good. I'll post the link here when ready. We'll probably be doing
again tmrw night too.


You can probably get away with low sampling rates if you bandwidth
limit the hi frequency end to cut off at 4 Khz, and that way you can
use 8khz as the sampling rate (Niequest theorem 2x audio rate).
16bps is also satisfactory as a bit rate with these low fidelity audio
chips.

That's what I do with my voice grade recordings. It reduces file size
(and streaming bandwidth) considerably.

Dave
"Sandbagger"

From: (Dr.X)
"Dr.X" wrote in message
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"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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From: (Dr.X)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
... Did this work? Do
this again, Dr. X,,,I'd like to get on and say hello to my friends up
north. Let me know a day or so in advance.
Let me know..I want to wave a hand.

We'll be doing some testing tonight at 7 to see
if low bit rates will still sound good. I'll post the

link here when ready. We'll probably be doing

again tmrw night too.

-Dr.X
_
it's up and running right now on ch. 35. testing

a 20kps connection. late due to a power

outage.

mms://24.28.51.42:27355 in windows

mediaplayer

Dr.X
_
I need a little notice. Give me a time, or plan for tomorrow evening.

From: (Dr.X)
"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Dr.X" wrote:
oops, forgot the ' : '
so that's mms://24.28.51.42:27355
It's rollin' in good over here. Educational even.

I think the most talented one out of the bunch

is the one called Under Dog. He'll whip out an

education on ya ever once in a while and

make you laugh your ass off in the process.

-Dr.X

_
The Larghetto crowd is like a crowded room full of stumbling drunks.
Occasionally, a funny is made. Harmless kooks.

"Dr.X" wrote in message
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"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Dr.X" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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That would be fun..make a DR.X studio to go along with the
broadcast,
...

Here's the difference between the "amature" radio operators and a
pro.

http://vpndns.com/dr.x.htm

-Dr.X

Is that you? That donut look like a CB to me, sir.

heh-heh... No it's not. It's a studio at a 75kw am radio station. I
sometimes have to laugh at the "amature radio ops" that come here to
tell everyone how it really is. I know better. ;-P

-Dr.X



and yes, that is me.

-Dr.X

I get a kick out of looking at gear, geek I suppose.

I'll get a pic of the transmitter for ya one of these dayz. Beleive it or
not, those two little black boxes in the back ground and the white box
their
sitting on (an adtran and 2 codex's) gives me a link to two satellites in
orbit. WOO-HOO! Talk about skip!

Get a haircut ya hippie. :)

Can't do radio in WKRP style with short hair. . .yeah ok, hippie. :-)

-Dr.X



I'll post pics of the plants I worked at, you'll **** yourself, No analog in
theconsoles, all digital with the guts for 4 stations in an engineering
room. TerrabyteS of Scott Studio hard drives, a geeks haven!!! My fave is
the Apogee Big Ben master clock, if it goes down the whole works comes
crashing down. I'll tell the story of the generator failure sometime :)

Chad

Hey Dr. X, shoot me an email...

"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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Hey Dr. X, shoot me an email...


DUCK!

-Dr.X

"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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From: (Dr.X)
"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Dr.X" wrote:
oops, forgot the ' : '
so that's mms://24.28.51.42:27355
It's rollin' in good over here. Educational even.

I think the most talented one out of the bunch

is the one called Under Dog. He'll whip out an

education on ya ever once in a while and

make you laugh your ass off in the process.

-Dr.X

_
The Larghetto crowd is like a crowded room full of stumbling drunks.
Occasionally, a funny is made. Harmless kooks.


I don't beleive I can hear Largo in my mud-duck-modile. Name some handles.
Maybe I do. There are some real kooks out there but that's nothing new. Roy
and Del Rio (both 35am) for instance.

I hear mostly Chuckie, Draino, 7-Zero, Underdog, Lefty (a real weirdo), and
the rest of that bunch.

-Dr.X

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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You can probably get away with low sampling rates if you bandwidth
limit the hi frequency end to cut off at 4 Khz, and that way you can
use 8khz as the sampling rate (Niequest theorem 2x audio rate).
16bps is also satisfactory as a bit rate with these low fidelity audio
chips.

That's what I do with my voice grade recordings. It reduces file size
(and streaming bandwidth) considerably.

Dave
"Sandbagger"

Hi Dave!

I tried going to 8KHz and went down to about 6Kbps using the ACELP codec
from VoiceAge Corp. It produced that under water quality. When streaming 11
meters, I already have the poor quality of the band to contend with. Adding
my own noise was just horrid. Do you have any suggestions on better codecs
to use for this? I'd like to get just above adding that noise but not so
high that only 5 listeners would choke it up.

I have not tried 16bps. When my friend Bill gets back into town, I'll give
it a shot. I live in an apartment building so I can't set up an antenna
here. I have to live vicariously via his Antron. (****... that sounds gay)

Thanks.
-Dr.X

From: (Dr.X)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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Hey Dr. X, shoot me an email...

DUCK!

-Dr.X

Nice shot.

From: (Dr.X)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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From: (Dr.X)
"Steveo" wrote in message
... "Dr.X"
wrote:
oops, forgot the ' : '
so that's mms://24.28.51.42:27355
It's rollin' in good over here. Educational even.
I think the most talented one out of the bunch
is the one called Under Dog. He'll whip out an
education on ya ever once in a while and
make you laugh your ass off in the process.
-Dr.X
_
The Larghetto crowd is like a crowded room full of stumbling drunks.
Occasionally, a funny is made. Harmless kooks.

I don't beleive I can hear Largo in my

mud-duck-modile. Name some handles.

Maybe I do. There are some real kooks out

there but that's nothing new. Roy and Del Rio

(both 35am) for instance.

I hear mostly Chuckie, Draino, 7-Zero,

Underdog, Lefty (a real weirdo), and the rest

of that bunch.

-Dr.X


That's them.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:25:41 -0500, "Dr.X" wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
.. .
You can probably get away with low sampling rates if you bandwidth
limit the hi frequency end to cut off at 4 Khz, and that way you can
use 8khz as the sampling rate (Niequest theorem 2x audio rate).
16bps is also satisfactory as a bit rate with these low fidelity audio
chips.

That's what I do with my voice grade recordings. It reduces file size
(and streaming bandwidth) considerably.

Dave
"Sandbagger"

Hi Dave!

I tried going to 8KHz and went down to about 6Kbps using the ACELP codec
from VoiceAge Corp. It produced that under water quality. When streaming 11
meters, I already have the poor quality of the band to contend with. Adding
my own noise was just horrid. Do you have any suggestions on better codecs
to use for this? I'd like to get just above adding that noise but not so
high that only 5 listeners would choke it up.

I have not tried 16bps. When my friend Bill gets back into town, I'll give
it a shot. I live in an apartment building so I can't set up an antenna
here. I have to live vicariously via his Antron. (****... that sounds gay)

I agree that 8Kbps is a bit "muddy" sounding. 16 Kbps is usually
better and considering the typically poor fidelity on the CB Band,
you really can't tell much of a difference. I use LAME codecs
exclusively to make MP3 files from WAV's and it seems to work ok for
my use.

The bottom line is bandwidth and I/O speed. Once you hit those limits,
there's no more to be had. Have you looked into the WMA format?
Supposedly it offers some streming advantages, although I haven't
tried them myself yet.

Dave
"Sandbagger"



Thanks.
-Dr.X

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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....
I agree that 8Kbps is a bit "muddy" sounding. 16 Kbps is usually
better and considering the typically poor fidelity on the CB Band,
you really can't tell much of a difference. I use LAME codecs
exclusively to make MP3 files from WAV's and it seems to work ok for
my use.

Yeah, I use lame to make MP3's too. I think it's great.

The bottom line is bandwidth and I/O speed. Once you hit those limits,
there's no more to be had. Have you looked into the WMA format?
Supposedly it offers some streming advantages, although I haven't
tried them myself yet.

Dave
"Sandbagger"

For the last few tests we have been using WME with WMA codecs. It works
really well. There are several advantages to it but a few disadvantages as
well. I'm going to post the instructions and see what others come up with.

Thanks,
-Dr.X

"Chad Wahls" wrote in message
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I've only seen 1 hard drive failure and there are clones that auto switch.
Look around, we just sold 4 studio's worth of Scott Studio gear that was
only 4 years old. Pennies on the dollar! High end analog consoles are
coming around too, we are losing both of our only wheatstones very soon,

What are you gonna want for them? Not saying I'm in the market for one but
it's nice to know if it gets brought up. I'm sure you won't have them for
long if they're selling for cheap.

going to digital. Proprietary replacement parts are hart to find as I
beleive they no longer support them, be easy on the faders and you should
be
fine.

Try telling that to the monkeys operating them. :-| I've gotten mixers back
that were in service for maybe a week that had more cafeen in them than the
Mr. Coffee pot in the break room.

All electronic parts such as op-amps, etc. are still in production
and quite common. I'll stick with whizzing drives, they are cheap,
reliable, and seem to make the most sense to me. But I like my digital
consoles :) Where are you located, My boss (cheif engineer) is corporate
and we travel all over the US building studios,

I'm in St. Petersburg, Fl. accross the bay from Tampa. (wfla territory)

we may have to meet up for
tours, lunch, drinks, and strippers!

That would be fun but dude, I'm a part-timer, not Bubba the Love Spunge. lol
:-)

Chad



-Dr.X

"Dr.X" wrote in message
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"Chad Wahls" wrote in message
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I've only seen 1 hard drive failure and there are clones that auto
switch.
Look around, we just sold 4 studio's worth of Scott Studio gear that was
only 4 years old. Pennies on the dollar! High end analog consoles are
coming around too, we are losing both of our only wheatstones very soon,

What are you gonna want for them? Not saying I'm in the market for one but
it's nice to know if it gets brought up. I'm sure you won't have them for
long if they're selling for cheap.


Don't know yet, but I'll let you know.

going to digital. Proprietary replacement parts are hart to find as I
beleive they no longer support them, be easy on the faders and you should
be
fine.

Try telling that to the monkeys operating them. :-| I've gotten mixers
back
that were in service for maybe a week that had more cafeen in them than
the
Mr. Coffee pot in the break room.


The first week in the new rooms I walked into a studio to find one of our
female DJ's with the wrapper of a toasted sub sandwich spread across the
console and she was a chowin down. On the meter bridge...... her drink. I
became explosively convincing that there was to be no food or drink, except
water, in the studios. Until she was fired :)

All electronic parts such as op-amps, etc. are still in production
and quite common. I'll stick with whizzing drives, they are cheap,
reliable, and seem to make the most sense to me. But I like my digital
consoles :) Where are you located, My boss (cheif engineer) is corporate
and we travel all over the US building studios,

I'm in St. Petersburg, Fl. accross the bay from Tampa. (wfla territory)

we may have to meet up for
tours, lunch, drinks, and strippers!

That would be fun but dude, I'm a part-timer, not Bubba the Love Spunge.
lol
:-)


I'll keep it in mind, I have an old live sound buddy down there working and
we need to get down to see him.

Chad

Dr. X, you going to be transmitting tonight?

Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll wave a
hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might even toss in some
echo and a beep or two for the fans.

"Steveo" wrote in message
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(Twistedhed) wrote:
Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll wave a
hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might even toss in some
echo and a beep or two for the fans.

Either email me, or post to the group and I'll tune into the X factor.

Currently running.

open windows media player, click "file" "open" (or "open url" if present),
then type:

mms://24.28.51.254:27355

-Dr.X

"Dr.X" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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(Twistedhed) wrote:
Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll wave
a hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might even toss in
some echo and a beep or two for the fans.

Either email me, or post to the group and I'll tune into the X factor.

Currently running.

open windows media player, click "file" "open" (or "open url" if
present), then type:

mms://24.28.51.254:27355

-Dr.X

I gotcha.

"I Am Not George" wrote in message
m...
(Twistedhed) wrote in message
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Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll wave a
hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might even toss in some
echo and a beep or two for the fans.

hey whats to stop the akc from tuning in

Intelligence, or I should say, lack thereof.

"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Dr.X" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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(Twistedhed) wrote:
Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll
wave
a hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might even toss
in
some echo and a beep or two for the fans.

Either email me, or post to the group and I'll tune into the X factor.

Currently running.

open windows media player, click "file" "open" (or "open url" if
present), then type:

mms://24.28.51.254:27355

-Dr.X

I gotcha.

At 7:32p Eastern, something went bad at the audio input cable. Sound went
funky and Bill checked to determine if it's in fact a bad wire. It looks
like it is. Took it off line. I'll go over there tmrw to see what happend.
Sorry Twist.

-Dr.X

"Jeff Mayner" wrote in message
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Dr.X wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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"Dr.X" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
...
(Twistedhed) wrote:
Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll
wave a hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might
even toss in some echo and a beep or two for the fans.

Either email me, or post to the group and I'll tune into the X
factor.

Currently running.

open windows media player, click "file" "open" (or "open url" if
present), then type:

mms://24.28.51.254:27355


How late do you keep it open? I'm on the west coast. Am I outta luck? :-(

Jeff

Hi Jeff.
Once we have it working well, I'll post the "best practices" and write a
short program to auto-update a web page with links. That way anyone that
does it will help provide more channels and towns to choose from
(hopefully). I also plan to set one up to be on 24/7.

For right now, I'm relying on my freind Bill since I live in an apparmtent
so can't have an antennea. I'll set up the permanent one at my work 20.
Should do well from there, I hope.

-Dr.X

At 7:32p Eastern, something went bad at the audio input cable. Sound
went funky and Bill checked to determine if it's in fact a bad wire. It
looks like it is. Took it off line. I'll go over there tmrw to see what
happend. Sorry Twist.
-Dr.X
_
Ok,,so we aim for tomorrow or Thursday. BTW,,I have some ideas for a set
of ears at your apartment if you really want to get on the air from
there.

"Twistedhed" wrote in message
...
At 7:32p Eastern, something went bad at the audio input cable. Sound
went funky and Bill checked to determine if it's in fact a bad wire. It
looks like it is. Took it off line. I'll go over there tmrw to see what
happend. Sorry Twist.
-Dr.X
_
Ok,,so we aim for tomorrow or Thursday. BTW,,I have some ideas for a set
of ears at your apartment if you really want to get on the air from
there.

I have some ideas too. That's why I started doing this in the first place.
So I can have "ears" in the apartment. :-)

-Dr.X

Dr.X wrote:
"Jeff Mayner" wrote in message
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Dr.X wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
...
"Dr.X" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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(Twistedhed) wrote:
Mopar,,,,check with X tonight,,,if he will be transmitting, I'll
wave a hand at ya' this evening....(no politics : ).....might
even toss in some echo and a beep or two for the fans.

Either email me, or post to the group and I'll tune into the X
factor.

Currently running.

open windows media player, click "file" "open" (or "open url" if
present), then type:

mms://24.28.51.254:27355


How late do you keep it open? I'm on the west coast. Am I outta
luck? :-(

Jeff

Hi Jeff.
Once we have it working well, I'll post the "best practices" and
write a short program to auto-update a web page with links. That way
anyone that does it will help provide more channels and towns to
choose from (hopefully). I also plan to set one up to be on 24/7.

For right now, I'm relying on my freind Bill since I live in an
apparmtent so can't have an antennea. I'll set up the permanent one
at my work 20. Should do well from there, I hope.

-Dr.X

Thank you, Doctor. I will keep an eye out for updates.

Jeff


--

From: (Dr.X)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
...
At 7:32p Eastern, something went bad at the audio input cable. Sound
went funky and Bill checked to determine if it's in fact a bad wire. It
looks like it is. Took it off line. I'll go over there tmrw to see what
happend. Sorry Twist.
-Dr.X
_
Ok,,so we aim for tomorrow or Thursday. BTW,,I have some ideas for a set
of ears at your apartment if you really want to get on the air from
there.
_

I have some ideas too. That's why I started

doing this in the first place. So I can have

"ears" in the apartment. :-)

-Dr.X
_
Right on. If you need a hand just yell,,,,,loud,,,after all, you need to
get up and over the Larghetto crowd.