[Elecraft] Shouting at the Mic? (WAS: Which Heil Prosets should we carry?)

[Toby Deinhardt]

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.


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