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Makes sense that it would sound "mushy", since you're "compressing" the negative peaks of your modulation. The "mushy" sounding audio is a byproduct of this.

Great examples of this are Turner +3, +3B, and Super Sidekick mics, and any Magnum radio that uses the CP-1 speech compressors. They all tend to have that muddy, flat, bassy audio, because of the compression. I had this exact problem with my Magnum 257, people did not like the sound of the radio, they kept complaining about "muddy, flat, bassy" audio, on AM and SSB. I discovered that the radio had the CP-1 compressor in it, so I removed the compressor, and with no other changes, the same people told me my audio was much better, night and day difference.

Your observation comes as no surprise.

~Cheers~

<blockquote data-quote="ExitThirteen" data-source="post: 458098" data-attributes="member: 6878">Makes sense that it would sound &quot;mushy&quot;, since you&#039;re &quot;compressing&quot; the negative peaks of your modulation. The &quot;mushy&quot; sounding audio is a byproduct of this. Great examples of this are Turner +3, +3B, and Super Sidekick mics, and any Magnum radio that uses the CP-1 speech compressors. They all tend to have that muddy, flat, bassy audio, because of the compression. I had this exact problem with my Magnum 257, people did not like the sound of the radio, they kept complaining about &quot;muddy, flat, bassy&quot; audio, on AM and SSB. I discovered that the radio had the CP-1 compressor in it, so I removed the compressor, and with no other changes, the same people told me my audio was much better, night and day difference.Your observation comes as no surprise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~Cheers~</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExitThirteen, post: 458098, member: 6878"] Makes sense that it would sound "mushy", since you're "compressing" the negative peaks of your modulation. The "mushy" sounding audio is a byproduct of this. Great examples of this are Turner +3, +3B, and Super Sidekick mics, and any Magnum radio that uses the CP-1 speech compressors. They all tend to have that muddy, flat, bassy audio, because of the compression. I had this exact problem with my Magnum 257, people did not like the sound of the radio, they kept complaining about "muddy, flat, bassy" audio, on AM and SSB. I discovered that the radio had the CP-1 compressor in it, so I removed the compressor, and with no other changes, the same people told me my audio was much better, night and day difference. Your observation comes as no surprise. :) ~Cheers~ [/QUOTE]

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