[BC] nominations for best sounding AM in your area?

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:09 am, Broadcast List USER wrote:

>  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.

 My voice just happens to particularly severe in this matter.
 So severe, that if you listen to me in person, then a phase flipped
 recording, even those with tin ears can hear it.

 It's one of those "value added" benefits of having me build your
 studios. Merely speaking into a mic !   ;)

>  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.

 For years the standard was lowest low, to highest high, ergo Pin3 hot.
 Somewhere along the way, the USA cow-towed to foreign manufacturing,
 and changed the "standard."
 The pins don't care, so as a result we must be even more diligent in
 conforming to the standard for THAT plant.
 Kinda like the green/white pair in some audio wiring. 

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

 As long as positive pressure on the diaphragm produces a positive
 going voltage on the assigned positive pin consistently through
 the plant, we can work with that ! 

 Naturally asymetric sounds aren't a problem.
 Forcing it to obtain loudness can be. 

-- 
Cowboy