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Morning Show Mic's on KLUV

J

JRZFM100

Not to be too nit picky here, but the situation with the mic's used for the morning show on KLUV has been noticeably bad since at least January of 2011.

That is because when they pot up the mic or mic's (don't know if it's just one or all), noise is clearly audible. Is it room noise? Maybe. But it is noise for sure, the noise comes right up.

Sometime I've even considered the possibility Jody was located inside the men's room, aka the legend surrounding Mary MacGregor song 'Torn Between Two Lovers'.

Used to be back in '11 that one of the morning show mic's had a noticeable hum, buzz or rumble, really bad.

Now that there are less folks on the show, maybe just maybe this can get fixed. (At least I was hopeful)

Do ya think somebody could get to the bottom of this? It's still a top-10 market right?

It reminds me very much of the WPLJ main mic, circa 1982, as soon as Carol Miller would pot up the mic all of the room noise would be come right up and be audible. Could always tell when the 'PLJ mic opened, well before the jock would speak.
 
You wouldn't be you if you weren't nit-picky...
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Hi John !

Thanks for the reply. I laughed and laughed when I read it!

You had a great show today (Monday 1/21)! Lot's great of phones. (I remember applying for a job back in '88 at KTUX in Shreveport and the ad in R&R said must have "great phones").

Best,

JRZ
 
Well John, apparently I wasn't so nit picky after all as the morning show microphones seem to have cured themselves after what, some 25 months of being ill.

That's right, I turned it on this morning and all of the noise being sucked up into the mics is gone. Nada. Nothing. Not there. I am truly surprised that public comment can get such a result.

Thank y'all.

Okay, you want nit picky... here's nit picky:

Even with the room noise gone, there is still a very slight hum or buzz down in the noise floor of the mic(s). Barely noticeable until I bring the volume up to level 32 of a possible 35.

Also, it is very pronounced that 'whomever' runs the board for the morning show will quite noticeably push the fader up when ever Jody gets done talking over an into...

This is a problem, (better word, a habit), with the mechanics of board operation. And a miss understanding of the role of broadcast transmission (audio) processing. It's old school. Jocks from Mexico and Central America tend to do this until trained otherwise. And it is a hard habit to break (no pun intended/Chicago song).

I'll bet this habit originated years ago at KVIL. But I really thought that Jody stood on the left hand side and didn't run the board there.

There's only 2 buttons on my radio. The one that turns it on and the one that turns it up!

(better give credit where credit is do - that is an original from Jeff Bergen, WAPP, Lake Success-New York City)
 
While we're at it on technical stuff, they're playing Bohemian Rhapsody at the moment. I heard "little high" in the right channel and "little low" in the left channel. Isn't that backwards? There seem to be some other songs KLUV plays where the channels are flipped.

R
 
Robert Bass said:
While we're at it on technical stuff, they're playing Bohemian Rhapsody at the moment. I heard "little high" in the right channel and "little low" in the left channel. Isn't that backwards? There seem to be some other songs KLUV plays where the channels are flipped.
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Have you checked to make sure your ears are not on backwards?
 
That's funny...
While we're at it on technical stuff, they're playing Bohemian Rhapsody at the moment. I heard "little high" in the right channel and "little low" in the left channel. Isn't that backwards? There seem to be some other songs KLUV plays where the channels are flipped.
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When I worked at... I'm almost afraid to say this cause it's a terrible resume stain from 25 years ago, KORQ / Q-100 in Abilene, Texas, where I went from a Top-50 Market (I WAS SO CRAZY), every other cart machine was Left/Right flipped in its output connectors.

Sometimes instruments would pan right to left, and other time left to right, depending on which machine the cart was played in.

Also, the master console output ran through a conventional patch panel and the main right out fed the main left in. So the patch cords were reversed upon visual inspection. I flipped the patch cords such that left out fed left in and right too. And the CE came and flipped them back as to maintain the inversion.

I don't know what went on there.... backwards by design!
 
I had a Dell PC that had a strange quirk when ripping CD's to .WAV files. Sometimes the computer would flip the channels during the ripping process. I never could figure out why it did that.

R
 
ON SECOND THOUGHT...

I listened to the K*LUV Morning Show early this week. Then simultaneously flipped across and listened to morning shows on KZPS, KVIL and NOW, in that exact order.

No one can tell me that the K*LUV morning show mics work anything close to normal. Because the comparative stations (KZPS, KVIL and Now) all have 2+ mics open at the same time and none of those stations sounds as bad, technically speaking, as KLUV, concerning the microphone quality inclusive of hum & buzz and room noise.

So take the A - B comparison test for yourself. And make sure to have the volume up sufficiently loud to appreciate KLUV's quality problem.

A simple comparison of KLUV to KZPS will show you the difference.
 
Topics/Commentary like these are why people think Radio is going the way of print. Too many niche tech topics.
 
This is not just a "niche" topic to someone who previously served as market engineering manager for major groups both here and in Houston; a veteran of Z-100 NY. This is a matter of quality, standards and competitive product. It is about competition.

Any attempt to dismiss this as trivial represents the degradation of care and concern about the final product of a Top-10 market radio station.

We're not talking an aesthetics issue, for example, this is not simply my opinion that the mic processing settings are not optimal for Jody.

The reality is there's a bunch of junk clearly audible on KLUV during the morning show. And there are no noise artifacts what so ever on the competitors stations.

A simple A-B-C comparison between stations will reveal the noise problem so very clearly to any observer.

It's just that clear.

Hey, even the morning show mic's on Jack sound better!!
 
jrprogrammer said:
Topics/Commentary like these are why people think Radio is going the way of print. Too many niche tech topics.
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No one forced you to read this thread, right?

R
 
there are too many mics, too much talk and not enough music on the kluv morning show... in a PPM market, how does jody get away with that much Talk?
 
Zippo was filling in for Dean this past Monday. I caught some of the show in the 7:00 AM hour, and I didn't hear any unwanted noise from the mics.

R
 
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