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

[AJSOENKE at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/29/2007 3:01:31 P.M.  Pacific Standard Time, 
dj7mgq at muenchen-mail.de 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.

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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



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