BQA (Broadcast Quality Audio) is that stuff you hear on the radio, television, and (sometimes) internet that's difficult to tell was recorded. For those of us in the Voice Over world specifically - it's audio that fully captures and accentuates our voices and NOTHING else! In BQA, you can't hear a narrator's gate clicking on and off... You never hear the room they recorded in... There are no artificial elements popping into the chain... Those disgusting mouth noises we all have and our mics pick up are eliminated (mostly for commercial work though as some of that is bound to end up in long-form narrations)... There's no electrical buzz in there... The real "noise floor" is -60Db or below (someone is going to want to argue that one with me - but I just did a National TV ad campaign and the audio engineer on the other end of the ISDN patch was very particular to ensure my studio's noise floor was below that mark!) The technical "details" of the files we deliver are at or above industry standards. How is it obtained? Everyone you talk to about it is likely to tell you something at least a little bit different... It's kinda like higher level mathematics in that there really are a number of ways to get to the "right answer"; BUT, the space you record in will have the greatest impact on whatever else you need to do to obtain that level of quality.
@@richardhall8347 Best, most detailed explanation I've read so far! Will be borrowing this next time clients ask what broadcast-quality means. Thank you, sir!
