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In the Thread: How idiots destroy sound.
Post Subject: Malpractice - did you complain to the station involved?Posted by Andy Simpson on: 10/28/2008
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

So, what, the WGBH did broadcasted the M6 live-to-tape with…horrible sound. Did they destroy the whole sound purely intentionally?  The finals final blow however was not screwed up – the graph even does not look as the same music as the compressor needed time to recover perhaps. The small MP3 file of the same fragment is attached. I have no idea what those idiots do that with sound, interestingly that it is absolutely unnecessary for them to do what they do. Why the fuck they do it I have no idea! If they were doctor then it might be a malpractice charge but here is a complete un-punishable barbarism going on… The caT


Often, live to tape means that a multi-mic setup is 'mixed' live and the stereo 'mix' is recorded (eg. to DAT) at the pre-broadcast processors stage. This usually means that 'mixing mistakes', which are encouraged by the multi-mic setup, are recorded and present in any subsequent broadcast.

It is most likely that the errors of the 'mixing engineer' were made without the spotlight of the heavy broadcast compression/limiting/eq and he himself would most likely be horrified to find how his mistakes became extremely obvious under this processing.

In my view, the engineer should be monitoring at the post-broadcast stage, where he can hear the effects of his work via the heavy broadcast processing, but he may not have been able or paid to do that.

This is something like a woman who applies heavy makeup in a bathroom with a 40w lightbulb, or worse, by candlelight, and is then seen in bright daylight.

Andy

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