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engineer Mike on wcbsfm

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:( I like Mike Erickson and I thought he was a great engineer. I heard he left wcbsfm and went to a station in NC. I wish him the Best!!! Everytime I would see him at live remotes, He was so pleasant!! Mike, go with your Dreams!! My Best!!! Love Mary (sad to see you go)
 
That would explain why CBS FM sounded flat when I heard it yesterday. I heard Broadway and Ron Parker last night and the audio was all over the place, like someone turned off half the processing.
 
erwin33 said:
Maybe the bring the Omnia processor back in and kicking the Optimod 8500 out the building?
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Why make a bad situation worse? Mike had that airchain singing like a mob informant...now...yeech.

Don't blame the equipment for having a less than perfect operator.
 
You know what we call an engineer who screws up the audio of a top rated station?


Unemployed.
 
He's working at Vorsis now on their processor line... I think a perfect place for someone with his ears and talents.
 
BabyDJ said:
You know what we call an engineer who screws up the audio of a top rated station?


Unemployed.
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One can only hope. Apparently the one now responsible for how CBS-FM sounds was a previous Lite-FM engineer.
Just take a listen to Lite FM and you'll hear what I'm talking about. Both stations are competing for worst on-air processing.

This past weekend, I tune into CBS-FM and it's.....out of phase! How can a station whose equipment was previously wired correctly now be out of phase?

Why break what's fixe and working? And why hasn't management turned the screws on this guy for screwing with something that was working just fine? If you don't know what you're doing with a processor, leave it alone and call on someone who knows audio processing. Once it's tweaked properly, put a cover on it and walk away!

I'm not an audio processing person. At my facility we send out everything raw (it's a network). We have a mic processor that Mike Erickson helped set up under a previous engineer. It sounds good. We have a security cover on it. End of story.
 
One last thought. I spoke with Mike via email months ago. In the stations I worked at, the engineers didn't have much passion for the station past just keeping it on the air. Mike was excited and proud about being at CBS FM. He spoke a-lot about processing and making the jocks sound larger than life.

I emailed him again this week to wish him well.
 
And why hasn't management turned the screws on this guy for screwing with something that was working just fine?/quote]
Did you ever think it may have been management that wanted it changed and not the engineering staff?
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The 8500 is still there. It's just had its settings altered. The tricked-out boxes that Erickson had installed were more than likely bypassed (or also re-adjusted) by this new engineer. And along the way he managed to make the audio out of phase. Good job, Henry Behring.
 
How did this become about cbs fm and how they sound? Mike did a great job at cbs, this is true...
We should wish him the best in his new adventure....good getaway from the NY suits..

WELCOME SOUTH BROTHER!
 
:) Mike is a great guy, I wish him the Best!! He is young and should do what he wants, I agree. I hope someone can fill his shoes. we all miss him, He will be fine!!!
 
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