[BC] Could our concept of audio be all wrong?

[Chuck Lakaytis]

Years ago while studying EE at the University of Missouri, one of my 
professors was a very famous power engineer.  He was often absent doing 
consulting work.  The good part about that was he used to tell us in 
detail what his trip entailed.  So we heard lots of "war" stories 
including the great North East blackout of decades ago.

When he was away a graduate assistant would bring in the prof's cassete 
recorder and place it on the desk and turn it on.  Terrible audio and we 
felt cheated.  (The grad student did all the chalk work)  So we rebelled 
in a geek sort of way.  The dean of the department one day happened to 
look into the classroom.  He saw one recorder playing away with John 
Tudor's voice and eleven recorders recording the recording.

The dean had a "Come to Jesus Meeting" with the good prof and things 
improved for the rest of the semester.

Sam Roffe wrote:
> That what we did.... Not really.  But we do have a iPOD connection in
> our studio.  I was and am still against it, but, PD and GM trumps
> Engineer.
>
> Our PD has dreams of coming in and finding a iPOD running the station.
>
>   

-- 
Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova Street
Anchorage, Ak 99501