Radio Station Sound Compression

[Sm1ffj]

Although they have to do it as stations are scared of quiet and silence, boosting the quiet places in songs and compressing the louder bits.

I do it with the stuff I play on my shows as it helps my on air workload, so I don't need to keep adjusting the trim knob constantly, and the station output being a community station is not fully compressed, I personally feel it sounds better compressed as it goes out, much more power, but it's just my preference. You have more freedom to do more on a community station.

But, do you like the compressed sound, or the natural uncompressed sound, just as the music track comes.

[TheThorne]

Yes there is obvious differences, I think most radio stations sound awful now worse than FM. They just sound so flat and muffled, no vibrancy or clarity at all and that even applies to BBC now 6 Music worst offender sadly. Why homegenise everything and remove what makes those tracks special. I want a rock song to rock,
I want a Dance track to throb, I want a slow song to give you chills, compression kills all that.

Think I ended up listening to Absolute but even that wasn't great.

DAB used to sound really good why have they done this?