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

[rickganley@juno.com]

Honestly, I think us Radio Geeks are the only ones who would care about
this stuff... reverb, audio processing, etc. means nothing to Joe
Listner... it's like the deep voice guys every one under 50 makes fun
of... 'boss jocks' are just parody material... thanks not only to the
'radio voice' but also the 'enhancement' of reverb and voice processing.
The majority of people out there prefer real human voices on the radio
now... and don't care if the voice or music is processed or not... as
long as it's "got phat baas (pronounced like the fish) and lots of highs,
like, ya know?"

- -Rick Ganley








On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:34:32 -0400 (EWT) Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>
writes:
>
>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)
>
>--
>Sven F. Weil
>e-mail: sven@lily.org
>World Wide Web: http://www.lily.org/~sven
>
>
>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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