[BC] Shared STL>>>Audio proofs

[Glen Kippel]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Sid Schweiger <sid at wrko.com> wrote:

> I've been lucky not to have had to clean up years of neglect, but getting
> everything right before a proof is exactly the same as getting everything
> right for best audio and RF performance in general.  I decided early on that
> I wouldn't be leaving all those kinds of problems for the one night per year
> when the proof would be done.  If you maintain everything properly and never
> postpone solving problems along the way, you can still knock off a proof in
> an hour.

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I have not been so fortunate.  At one station, when I first visited the
transmitter I found that the 833s had holes burned in the plates.  No wonder
they sounded so bad!  Spares?  What's that?

I agree that it was possible to do all the measurements in an hour.  It took
a lot longer than that to write up the results and draw the graphs.

Sone places had a policy of checking the console tubes with a tube tester
and replacing the weak ones.  Other stations just said not to spend the time
(or maybe they didn't have a tube tester) and just "shotgun" the board with
all new tubes every year, whether they were bad or not.  ISTR that the
Gatesway had 36 tubes.