Maintaining Audio Quality in the Broadcast Facility 2011 - Orban

in the Broadcast/Netcast Facility 69
Here he learned the ins and outs of the commercial broadcast business, including
the technical workflow.
In 1975, he founded Gregg Laboratories, a broadcast audio signal processing company,
and he has had considerable experience designing commercial broadcast audio
processing systems that many high profile broadcasters have used. He has extensively
researched the characteristics of consumer radio receivers and, with Robert
Orban, co-authored a technical paper proposing the standardization of preemphasis
in AM broadcast. This paper was presented before the Society of Automotive
Engineers and National Association of Broadcasters and was the precursor to
the AM-NRSC standard.
He has also authored and co-authored many other technical papers on various topics
relating to the audio and broadcast industry.
In 1984, he founded Modulation Index, a broadcast engineering consultancy, and
has done studies on broadcast modulation measurement instrumentation and FM
modulators, including STL's and exciters. As a result of these studies, he developed
modifications for popular monitors, STL's, and exciters to improve their dynamic
transient accuracy and competitiveness, and he presented a technical paper before
the National Association of Broadcasters regarding these findings. He developed
audio signal processing algorithms that were later included in all of the current
generation of Optimod audio processors.
As technical director for KTNQ/KLVE, Heftel Broadcasting, Los Angeles, from 1985 to
1991, he relocated studio facilities and constructed a new efficient alternative use
AM transmission facility. As technical director for KBIG/KLAC, Los Angeles from 1998
to 2000, he installed a new computer network and digital audio delivery system
throughout the business and technical facility. KBIG/KLAC was one of the first radio
stations to stream audio on the Internet with high fidelity sound, all from internal
encoders and servers.
After Ogonowski joined Orban in 2000 as VP Product Development, he led the team
that created Optimod-PC, a PCI sound card with onboard audio processing for any
digital audio or streaming application. He currently oversees the engineering department,
where audio encoders, editors, and signal processors currently under development
will enable Orban to continue in its tradition of high quality, high performance
broadcast technology.
Determined to change the way Internet streaming audio is perceived and consumed,
he was the architect of the first commercial high quality file and streaming audio
encoder using standards-based MPEG-4 AAC/HE-AAC and MPEG Surround, Orban
Opticodec-PC. He also created a high quality HE-AAC streaming player supporting
standards-based protocols, the StreamS HiFi Radio App, which was the first Adobe
Flash streaming audio player for Apple iPhone/iPad.