unitron wrote:
Bill Thompson wrote in message ...
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Idiots who know nothing about sound or electronics get to run radio
stations, no news there.

But it wasn't always that way!!!

WKRP wasn't real life exagerated for comic
effect, it was real life dialed back to make it believable for the
viewing audience who had no idea about what life in real small to
medium market stations was like.

I would have to agree with that...

If that wasn't bad enough, I then tackled the air chain, and, as I'm
sure you've already guessed, everything I fixed made the rest of the
stuff sound worse. Sadly, I started at the sources, tape decks and cart
machines, so the difference was really obvious when the air staff would
switch the monitors from air to program.

Wouldn't switching between program and air just show the difference
made by the post-board mix processing chain?

Absolutely! But we had bigger fish to fillet... the board, or more
accurately the way the board was configured and used, was a big part of
the problem. This was my introduction to the importance of proper gain
staging!

Wouldn't proper head cleaning and alignment make both sound better?

That's what I thought... but when all the tape decks and cart machines
were set up they really made the rest of the system choke. And of course
once you start you're pretty much stuck, so we then tackled the console,
and once that was set up the difference between the output of the
console and the output from the transmitter was so dramatic...