File Processing

You rely on Voice Track production, but for various budgetary reasons, you haven't yet taken the step of installing a BIG VOICE system in your production studios. This delicate situation creates a particularly noticeable sound imbalance throughout your daily programming. The result is unfortunately obvious to your listeners: disparate voices that severely lack homogeneity, sound rendering significantly less impactful than in direct broadcast, and a general impression of discontinuity in your on-air flow. The overall sound coherence of your station is considerably affected, which progressively diminishes the impact and recognition of your sonic identity among your loyal audience.

Did you know that for a surprisingly modest investment that's perfectly accessible even to organizations with limited resources, the virtualized BIG VOICE .CL version can completely transform the quality of your radio production? This innovative technological solution has been specifically designed to process all of your Voice Track recordings automatically and intelligently, exactly as if they were produced in live conditions in your main studio. The result is striking: a constant, professional, and homogeneous sound quality that applies uniformly to all your broadcast content, whether pre-recorded or broadcast live.

Depending on the specific needs and various media broadcasting architectures, the insertion of advertising messages can be performed directly locally, without going through the program's final processing chain. This approach applies particularly in several distinct contexts: pre-rolls during streaming broadcasts, integration of advertisements in HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) flows, or the insertion of local advertising strategically positioned just before transmitters.

These different application cases require particularly judicious and meticulous preprocessing to ensure that advertising content integrates perfectly and harmoniously into the main program being broadcast, both in terms of sound levels and sound quality and timbre. This seamless integration is essential to maintain a coherent and pleasant listening experience for the audience, without perceptible disruption between editorial content and advertising messages.

The SOUND4 FILE .CL is the ideal tool to guarantee optimal results. It processes your advertisements in batches (batch processing), applying either the x1 .CL or IMPACT .CL processing engine according to your needs. Your advertisements will thus be perfectly integrated into your program without disturbing or shocking your listeners.

Creating original shows is your passion, you put your whole heart into it. You want to create something perfect, but have you considered the importance of final mastering?

This step is often neglected because it can be complex, even destructive if you don't use the right solutions. At SOUND4, we've been developing recognized processing tools for years. For final mastering, we have virtualized our two flagship processing processors on the market:

The x1 .CL, a simple, affordable and extremely versatile multiband processor for all applications.

The IMPACT .CL, our flagship and most sophisticated product in the range, a true Swiss Army knife of processing that perfectly meets the critical demands of advanced mastering.

To facilitate mastering, which consists of processing long pre-recorded audio files, we have developed the FILE .CL, a "File Processing" solution that can use all our processing engines, including the x1 .CL and IMPACT .CL.

In FILE .CL, you create separate processing tasks for each application or client, using specific profiles and processing engines according to client expectations. Then, you drop your pre-recorded shows into a directory, and they will automatically come out processed in another directory; once configured, everything is automatic!

FILE .CL also offers final transcoding features, allowing the production of files in WAVE, MP3, AAC and HE-AAC formats. The bitrate is fully configurable according to your specific needs.