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<blockquote data-quote="Milt Hathaway" data-source="post: 64037" data-attributes="member: 26">Re: Lousy broadcast audioI&#039;ll admit it&#039;s mostly small time, but I do occasionally mix for broadcast. It doesn&#039;t matter how good it sounds in the truck, just as it doesn&#039;t matter how good a mix sounds directly out of the console in a live situation. When I do broadcast audio I keep the end result in mind. If that means pre-processing to squash the dynamics, EQing to prevent false triggering of compressors, and adjusting the mix for clarity, then I do it. I know it doesn&#039;t matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment is in the truck, as my mix will likely eventually get squeezed through an little 8 channel $100 mixer before it gets to air.Yes, consumer equipment sucks, but that&#039;s what we are mixing for. Perhaps we need to go back to monitoring with that pair of Auratones on the meter bridge so that we aren&#039;t sending an unusable product out of the truck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Milt Hathaway, post: 64037, member: 26"] Re: Lousy broadcast audio I'll admit it's mostly small time, but I do occasionally mix for broadcast. It doesn't matter how good it sounds in the truck, just as it doesn't matter how good a mix sounds directly out of the console in a live situation. When I do broadcast audio I keep the end result in mind. If that means pre-processing to squash the dynamics, EQing to prevent false triggering of compressors, and adjusting the mix for clarity, then I do it. I know it doesn't matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment is in the truck, as my mix will likely eventually get squeezed through an little 8 channel $100 mixer before it gets to air. Yes, consumer equipment sucks, but that's what we are mixing for. Perhaps we need to go back to monitoring with that pair of Auratones on the meter bridge so that we aren't sending an unusable product out of the truck. [/QUOTE]

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