The world’s successful AM broadcast stations all use audio processing to produce a sound on the air that attracts listeners. CAM-1 has been designed specifically with this in mind, to produce improved sound for a wide range of AM broadcast material. Orban’s CAM-1 improves the sound quality of AM broadcasting by providing increased high frequencies and improved bass. It can make your station louder, so its coverage will be increased. CAM-1 produces a very easy-to-listen-to sound. Your station will sound better to listeners. Your levels will stay consistent, so that the listener will not need to change the volume control on their radio as you change from music to voice, from one program to another. CAM-1 works best when connected directly to the transmitter. It prevents the transmitter from over-modulating, taking over the function of a limiter, but without introducing the distortions typical of peak limiters. CAM-1 is easy to install and adjust. The only operating controls are input and output level. Orban’s engineers spent hundreds of hours listening and adjusting, to set the processing’s parameters to work well with all kinds of program material. The CAM-1 provides level control, dual-band AGC and compression, high-frequency boost (AM pre-emphasis) to help overcome the severe high frequency rolloffs in radios, bandwidth limiting to 9kHz, and final absolute peak control to prevent over-modulation by the transmitter. CAM-1 Performance Highlights • Replaces all on-line compressors and limiters. • Accurately and transparently limits levels without producing audible artifacts. • Keeps a consistent loudness on the air with changes in input level. • Has very low static and dynamic distortion, thus producing extremely transparent, natural audio quality. • Limits its output bandwidth to 9kHz while constraining overshoots at its output to approximately ldB maximum. • Accurately indicates processing with a 10-element LED bargraph array. • Uses a transformerless, balanced lOkft instrumentation-amplifier input and a transformerless, balanced, floating 30ft output to ensure highest transparency and accurate pulse response. • Designed to meet all applicable international safety standards. • Designed and built in the United States by Orban, manufacturer of the world-fa-mous OPTIMOD® processors.