[BC] ...Seriously pal?...

[ray at rayvaughan.com]

Reminds me of a story.  Years ago I was helping an FM chief with a live
broadcast from an auto show in Providence. Lots of setup work. I went out to the
car to listen to the first break.  Sounded perfect.  Too perfect. It sounded
like it was in the studio.  The booth wasn't on the main floor, it was in one of
the concourses. So I strung up a cheap mic in the stands to get ambient noise
from the show floor. Now it sounded like a live remote.

Ray

From: Cowboy <curt at cwf1.com>
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On Saturday 16 June 2012 11:38:33 am Alan Peterson wrote:
> For $20, your production director can now have a plug-in that puts noise back
> in to his/her recordings -- air conditioners, demagnetizers, neon lights etc
> -- effectively undoing all that critical construction we insisted upon to make
> the recording environment as noise-free as possible.

Actually, it's not a bad idea !!

The reason we built what we built was not to make certain that
*no* noise got into the production, but to make certain that no
*unintentional* noise got there.
Subtle, but there is a difference.