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I was going to write that.

Some announcer's voices peak "positive" and some peak "negative."  Of  
course, positive and negative are relative, and specific to your  
plant, and your mics -- though those are slowly becoming standard.

I have been around long enough to remember the "pin 3 hot, versus pin  
2 hot" debates.  While I BELIEVE we have all agreed to 2 hot, I have  
seen entire network plants, radio and TV stations wired pin 3 hot.

Mics have been the same.  Positive pressure goes positive on 2 or 3  
is, or at least was, a constant debate.

Different voices produce different results, and women's voices can be  
really rough, and very different.

--chip

On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:10 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 20
> From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
>
> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 12:00 pm, Mark Humphrey wrote:
>>
>> there a practical way to eliminate the phase rotator and let the
>> natural asymmetry of voices pass through, thus reducing some of the
>> clipping distortion?    Wiring all of the in-house mics for the
>> correct polarity may not be difficult, but then we have to deal with
>> material produced elsewhere which has a 50/50 chance of coming in the
>> way we want it.   What's the consensus on this?
>
> I do know that MY voice is something 3 db hotter in the negative  
> direction,
> so careful mic wiring won't help.
> -- 
> Cowboy