In a message dated 12/29/2007 3:01:31 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good evening, morning, day or night,
> That's why air traffic controllers, emergency service dispatchers and many > others are carefully taught to *never* raise their voices on the air. They > need to be heard, and heard correctly, as quickly as possible. I suppose it might be a question of definition of what a raised voice is. I'll never forget the first time I was in a studio during the 6PM news (actually it was shortly before 7PM) and was very surprised at the volume which the anchor used to speak. He did not shout (you breath differently when you shout) but he talked loudly. I have heard this time and time again at work over the years, a loud voice is better than one which is too low. This does not mean shouting or yelling! According the sound techs this has something to do with the dynamic range of the speech and allows lower microphone gain, which reduces the audio impact of the room surrounding the speaker. Also lower microphone gain has the advantage of picking less unwanted noise. When I referred to shouting I put in quotes on purpose, because I wanted to point out that when trying to fish out a week one, even a normal level voice will seem like shouting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ In a broadcast studio, you have sound engineers monitoring everything that goes in and out of the transmitter, modulation levels are high priority. So a good sounding announcer is where it starts, a good engineer is where it flows. Ham Ops need to be both! Al WA6VNN **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
