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Topic: Suggested Level Settings for Avenue 9670 AGC - Automatic Gain Control

One broadcaster who has been testing our Avenue 9670 AGC - Automatic Gain Control Software - suggests
the following as the "sweet spot" for his station, a balance between controlling wild levels and not making
the AGC obvious:

Max Level               0 dB
Min Level             -15 dB
Analysis Time      15 sec
Max Atten            -10 dB
Max Gain              10 dB
Transition Time      3 sec

http://www.ensembledesigns.com/products/9670

2 Reply by bbobich

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Re: Suggested Level Settings for Avenue 9670 AGC - Automatic Gain Control

We've been using the "sledgehammer" approach for ACG.  Max/Min levels -22dBfs/-26dBfs with a 3 second analysis time and 2 second transition.  Attenuation and gain at +/- 10dB.  Just about the time it takes to find the remote control by the comfy chair for the end user, the AGC kicks in and remedies overall gain.  While certainly not an audio processor, this AGC works great.  I prefer looser AGC settings, but our operators don't comply with good engineering practice as much of our network programming comes from out of house and is turned around without much QC.