Friday, February 2, 2007

“Live” updates

This blog report is brought to you by Welch’s purple grade juice. No wait, that’s the next traffic report I have to record. Let’s just skip ahead to the actual content of the blog.

On Sunday mornings our station airs a live broadcast from a local church. They call us via a “Comrex” box, our Comrex answers, and if all goes well it is broadcast out on the air. It sounds simple put that way, really it is a simple setup that should work without any problems. That however, is only in theory.

In reality, Murphy loves to stop by on Sunday mornings on his way to steal a sock out of your dryer.

So this week, the line was busy, and there was an open mic in the studio picking up random noise. Upon further review we have discovered this:

-Even though the mic is not supposed to go out over the air (but is wired in to the Comrex) that is in fact what is happening. So it seems the studio mic volume was left up, even though the mic was “off” which caused it to pick up the noise heard on Sunday.

-If the line is busy, the Comrex needs to be turned off and then turned on again.

The only thing I can do anything about is leave a note for Veronica to be sure the mic is turned down for the weekend.

Will it work this weekend? Your guess is as good as mine.

This has been the bulk of my afternoon, all to get to the point of saying “veronica, please be sure the fader volume is all the way off when you leave.”

Boy it sounds a little empty when you say it that way, I should come up with something more impressive. However, that seems to be typical of problems around here.

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4 Comments:

At February 3, 2007 at 12:34 PM , Blogger David Edward said...

two boxes talking to one another, and no humans... how could it go wrong? haha

 
At February 3, 2007 at 6:22 PM , Blogger Shelley L. MacKenzie said...

Here from Joe's to say hello! Hope all goes well with the mic situation this week.

 
At February 4, 2007 at 9:33 AM , Blogger jazzycat said...

Looks like cats like to visit your blog.... JOe sent me.

 
At February 5, 2007 at 12:15 PM , Blogger Caleb said...

David: Sometimes I think Murphy has a key to the studio

Shelly: Thank you for the kind hopes, I'm sure they helped. :)

Jazzycat: I'm personally more of a dog person, but still I thank you for stopping by.

 

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