[Bill]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
wrote:
Clarity, or distortion was not the issue. vocals burried in the mix on
almost every song was.
Maybe it sounded good live, I am sure it sounded good in the in their
ear monitors.

What was being broadcast to millions of people, SUCKED.

Dunno. Clearly what was being broadcast to _you_ sucked. The problem
is that so many folks are listening on different services with different
processing chains.

And so many local cable TV services don't give a damn about sound quality.
I won't even TALK about what the satellite TV guys do.

There have been times when I have seen my mix go out that distribution
amplifier into the cold outside world and been horrified when I heard
what came back....
--scott

That makes a good point for having a 10 foot C band and KU band dish to
get the direct feeds, before the locals manage to mess things up. Up
until a few years back when I moved, I had such an animal, and the
network feeds that weren't digital were top notch quality. Watch them
after your local cable company has digitized, stored, and played back at
the maximum compression and then....yuch.
Bill Baka