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Bill Thompson wrote in message ...
unitron wrote: Bill Thompson wrote in message ... snip... 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... So the stuff between the board and the xmtr was making the board signal worse, but the board signal sucked so bad that the additional suckage wasn't particularly noticable until you started improving the source and then any improvements in the board signal just made the deliterious effects of the processing chain that much more noticable? |
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unitron wrote:
So the stuff between the board and the xmtr was making the board signal worse, but the board signal sucked so bad that the additional suckage wasn't particularly noticable until you started improving the source and then any improvements in the board signal just made the deliterious effects of the processing chain that much more noticable? You said it better than I couldG! |
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