[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

[Harold Hallikainen]

That's pretty clever! I wonder if the audio was balanced or unbalanced.
Was it stereo? I can imagine a DJ having to put in four clip leads to
patch something, and getting the phasing righ...

Harold


> Years ago I helped do an audio proof on a station in central Missouri.
> While we were waiting to sign off the AM/FM/co-located with studios I
> noticed that the "patch bay" to switch remote lines into the Gates audio
> console was a pattern of finish nails driven into the side of the cart
> rack
> with wires wrapped around them (not soldered), and alligator clips crimped
> onto cross connect wires for the patch cables.  I asked the jock on duty
> how
> well that worked, and he said that it usually was fine, but if the signal
> got "buzzy" he would wiggle the alligator clips and the nails until the
> buzz
> went away.
>
> Steve B.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Lakaytis
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:00 AM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen
>
> And it wasn't even a cardoid mic!  635 as I recall.
>
>
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