[BC] Remote audio quality

[Barry Mishkind]

At 05:12 AM 4/5/2007, dhultsman5 at aol.com wrote
>What amazes me is remotes that are using Comrex and Tielines POTS 
>units with good quality connections and the marvels of digital 
>transmission the audio sounds terrible.  I helped a friend check out 
>one of these systems and we found that "Digital Overload" was most 
>of the problem.  His  Remote techie and station Groupie  were not 
>wantching any levels they just set up the remote, which also sounded 
>distorted over the local PA system.   Basically,  overload the audio 
>at the first microphone pre-amp with levels too high,  means that 
>the audio quality cannot get any better on down the transmission path.

         There is a local television station here that
         has at least one remote crew that invariably
         sends nasty, distorted audio to air on live
         shots.

         What is amazing is that some of
         the staff know about it, but no one does
         anything. The distortion continues for
         the entire live shot.

         maybe I"m a radio guy, but this deserves
         a "heavy sigh."