[Fwd: Re: Dictionary of Noise]

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

Forwarded from the CBI listserv...
- Aaron

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Aaron "Bishop" Read     aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Technical Consulting / Boston, MA
www.friedbagels.com   AOL-IM: ReadAaron


> From The Collegiate Broadcasters Incorporated Listserv>>
>
>Forwarded from the pubradio list.
>
>Will R
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: Dictionary of Noise
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:20:56 EST
>From: NanRubin@aol.com
>Reply-To: PUBRADIO - PUBLIC RADIO DISCUSSION GROUP
><PUBRADIO@listserv.boisestate.edu>
>To: PUBRADIO@listserv.boisestate.edu
>
>Open Call To Audio Nerds- help Prometheus Radio Project  make "The
>Dictionary of Noise."
>
>Prometheus is an activist group which puts radio stations in the
>hands of ordinary people by fighting the corporate media and training
>people to build their own radio stations.
>
>We are soliciting the help of audio and radio  people everywhere in
>creating our next technical resource, A Dictionary of Noise. We are
>looking for five to ten second samples of all sorts of audio, radio,
>and digital problems. These samples will be used to help teach new
>technicians how to recognize common problems, and will be housed for
>free use on our website, www.prometheusradio.org we will also make a
>CD of these which we will sell for a few dollars from our website to
>cover our costs, but at no profit.
>
>For example, we need clips of:
>
>audio:
>60 cycle hum
>ground loop
>am interference
>overcompression
>bad connectors
>bad stereo separation
>harmonic distortion
>
>radio
>multipath
>adjacent channel interference
>interference from other services
>overmodulation
>
>
>digital
>low sample rates
>low bandwidth
>
>
>You get the picture! This is not really an audiophile thing- i spent
>too many years running a circular saw without earplugs to tell much
>difference with high quality audio... this is a basic reference about
>what can go wrong in a radio station.
>
>Before and after recordings are especially helpful so people can
>identify when a problem is fixed.
>
>so, send us recordings of your favorite noises! mp3s can be sent to
>petri@prometheusradio.org. contributors will be acknowledged and get
>two free copies of the cd mailed to them (one for you, and one for
>the person who calls you in the middle of the night asking what is
>wrong with the board most often...)
>
>Thanks,
>pete tridish
>prometheus radio project
>
>
>
>Please forward at will!
>
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>laboratory glassware, useful in observing resistant strains of
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>
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>www.prometheusradio.org
>Prometheus Radio Project
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