On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:11:26 -0500, "Chad Wahls"
wrote in :
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Sounds like we had similar jobs -- do the daily checks, fill out the
daily reports, then spend the rest of the day making cables, cleaning
cart machines and waiting for something to break?
And spring storms... Arrrgh. Had a ground come loose once and I got the
page "Chad oldie's console is on fire!"
That was the worst electrical storm I have ever seen, My tower got hit 53
times in one day. I went thru an ass load of OpAmps that day! I was
actually second in command, the CE was corporate, so, often in the spring
and summer he was off building stations which put me in charge. It was a
great relationship as the Engineering dept was least hasseled and my "boss"
the CE and I are best friends.
I'm still over there helping out from time to time. BEs are like farmers,
always willing to help each other out, I like that!
I know what you mean. A couple months ago they asked me if I wanted to
change the bulbs in the tower and I did -- the view is incredible if
you don't mind all the bird ****.
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I use the Extigy -- it's great because you can locate the box some
distance away from the noisy computer and ground it directly to the
mixer.
Yeah, those are great consumer cards! I went with the original audigy
because they were dirt cheap at the time and sound good. My big sound card
for my mastering system is a MOTU 828mkII. I love it! I recently bought it
to upgrade an old Echo LAYLA, still nice but I wanted firewire.
The LAYLA? Heck, that's almost as old as my Tropez!
But for complaints to the station, I got them to order a huge box of
4" jumpers that have pigtails to the shield. Just plug them into the
soundcard (or whatever audio equipment is getting the interference),
screw the pigtail to the chassis, and 'presto' -- problem solved. No
invasive surgery, and you're out of the house in a matter of minutes.
Unfortunately I was across the street from the local community college, so
the surrounding apartments had a lot of student housing. The kids would go
home for the summer and convieninetly loose the jumpers. I had some too
(jumpers) and would use them for the more established residents but for the
kids I would do the solder in to keep from having to come back. I got
pretty quick with it so I could be in and out fast. Took longer to explain
what I was going to do than do it 
I had a different problem -- half of this town is retired so I usually
got stuck being the geriatric-therapist-du-jour.
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.....One of these days we gotta exchange inventory lists
of our scrounge bins.
My bins are slowly deteriorating as I've been out of the loop a while but I
have another build this summer I said I would help on After that I should
be back in action for a while!
My best find was 3 Invonics AM broadcast processors I think they are
LVP201's. I was a touring sound engineer and I used one for lead vocal and 2
for squashing the drums. I would have the drums on a VCA and then send them
to the "loud drums subgroup" for discretionary use. This would make the
drums "louder" without chewing up subwoofers. Great for a drum solo and
what it did for vocals was amazing. I got some pretty funny looks from
other engineers on the road though
Hey, ya use what ya got. Nowdays if the band is mobile it's a lot
easier on the vertebrae to just get a Behringer with all the bells and
whistles. They are a little expensive but a lot easier than lugging
around an effects rack.
I sold two of them to a local studio and now have one at home on my.... u
guessed it.... CB Talk about loud audio, screw swing, I have NO swing,
the way it should be
I got those units from a dumpster because they had LED's burnt out, HA!
That sounds about right. You can talk some of these stations out of
just about anything by telling them they forgot to change the oil.
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