Re: Boston Network Radio Affiliations: 1950's and 1960's.

[Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>]

Well...my cousin has a reverb unit hooked up to his massive component
stereo system that if you set it at a low to moderate setting (about two
notches on the control) it makes the sound coming out of it seem even
more impressive - like it was in a bigger room instead of a tiny railroad 
flat bedroom.

 I'm not saying make the station sound
like a cathedral or a huge vault...I'm talking about a very slight echo,
enough to know it's there, but not cranked all the way up as to keep
hearing the words 5  minutes after they've been spoken.

I'm for putting slight reverb on all mics. Some commercials also would
benefit from it. I think it still makes a station sound more...alive

(ahhh pipe dreams, how great they are)

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Sven F. Weil
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Shawn Mamros wrote:
> 
> You kiddin' me?  Yeah, I could just hear it now, in my mind's ear, David
> Brudnoy's voice coming through an old spring reverb - not!
> 
> For brief stretches of time (just long enough to do a talk up), with just
> one voice behind a mic, reverb sounds good.  But with a talk host constantly
> chatting, it would get to be pretty old quick.  And what would you do with
> any guests on the show?  Put reverb on their voices too?  That would sound
> annoying.  But without it, you'd have a disturbing disparity between the
> host's and the guest's voices.  And what about callers?
> 
> Besides, I think that, in the minds of most people, reverb is indelibly
> associated with "old" Top-40 radio.  That's why the only stations that
> continue to use it are oldies stations.
> 
> And pocket transistor radios???  Who's still got one of those?  Ever since
> the debut of the Sony Walkman (nearly 20 years ago now, right?), portable
> radios have had far more fidelity than those old tinny things.
> 
> -Shawn Mamros
> E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu
> 

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