[BC] Re Marti Quality

[Xmitters@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/6/07 12:08:54 AM Central Daylight Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

<< >         As has often been noted here, CONTENT is usually more
 >         important to the listener than the absolute purity of sound.
 >
 >         In fact, I've had more than one PD agree that if the
 >         "marti shot" is too good, then how does the listener
 >         know there really is a remote going on?
 
 That is a good point, indeed. True, you can make a remote sound so 
 good that the average listener probably can't tell you're not in the 
 studio. And I will agree that is sometimes unwanted. It all depends 
 on the type of a remote... Sometimes you do need highest quality, 
 most of the time a more down-to-earth approach is indeed more real-life.
 
 
 Regards, >>

This seems like a reasonable position. One station where I worked however, 
when the remote had all of the remote-oide pops and crackles that made it sound
 
like a "remote" we could virtually count on the next senior staff meeting at 
the station being a major pissing contest to determine why the remote sounded 
so "remoty" and who's fault it was. They expected the remotes _to_ sound like 
they were in the studio. I sure wish I had the pleasure of working with one of 
those more realistic PD's to which you refer. Mine was a major ulcer 
producing, Prosaic addicting situation. it was not fun for anyone involved. Kin
da takes 
the fun out of radio, does it not?

The upside of our remotes is, they were typically "all hands on deck 
(airstaff)" but not all of them required engineering presence because they were
 
"breaks only" as opposed to a full show. I went to the remotes anyway, because 
I had 
such a great time with my staff and we were able to make it an almost 
partying type situation. It was great fun, the staff was appreciative of my bei
ng 
there in case something went wrong. Plus, they could then drink more beer :-)  
We 
did a lot of Pub remotes. This was of course, before I went NPR.




Jeff Glass
Northern Illinois University

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