[Fwd: 16:9 Aspect Ratio]

[Dave Doherty]

>Everything else becomes background noise

Including that police siren?

:-)

-d

PS- Loved your writeup this week on DKVEZ. What a mess.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
To: "Bill O'Neill" <billohno@gmail.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: 16:9 Aspect Ratio]


> 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!
> 
> s
> 
>