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[Scott Fybush]

Bill O'Neill wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> Obviously you haven't traveled with Mr. Fybush.
>>
>> I think it's possible to handle about four distinct sources, provided
>> they are all physically separated. 
> 
> I have to believe that Mr. Fybush's many years in news rooms were 
> formative to this skill.  I recall Scott in the news room with, among 
> other sources of audio at full volume: ABC private channel, ABC news 
> audio, news scanner, and two legacy AP machines, ringing phones, air 
> monitor....

Which was really just practice for the BZ newsroom, which added about 
eight more audio sources (CNN, later CBS, plus more scanners, the Group 
W news squawker, etc.) into the mix. And then they moved us in with TV...

But to get back to Garrett's original point: it's true that I sometimes 
have multiple sources of audio going at once when I'm trying to get a 
bunch of top-hour IDs while traveling. Even with the help of earbuds, 
though, I really can't focus usefully on more than perhaps three audio 
sources at once. Everything else becomes background noise, which is not 
always a good thing!

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