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Summary: Radio station microphones are run through a voice processor. Learn about microphone placement for a radio station interview in this free radio station overview from an experienced radio technician.
"OK, in this segment we'll be talking through the mic. And I want to show you a strange little feature of this voice processor. So, I'm going to do the bad thing and move my mic around while I'm talking into it. And let me show you some of its features. Here you have gain, you can turn yourself up here. And now I'm really loud, you might not be able to hear it, or you can turn it back down. It has a lot of strange features that I don't really know about too much. For example, the DSer. What's the DSer? I don't know, but it's got an enhancer. And I'll tell you it really does enhance. Folks at home you probably won't be hearing this, hearing the difference. The following difference. But when I press process by-pass, what it does is it disconnects the mic from this device. So the mic will still go to the board, it just won't be amplified and it won't be enhanced. Basically what this machine does, is it makes you sound very NPR. So when I hit process by-pass, first of all I have to turn myself up a lot more on the board to be heard at all. And secondly I sound a lot less NPR. So anyway, that's the deal. Another thing you need to know about this machine is, if you have a guest, hit the process by-pass. That'll make you sound less NPR, you as the host. However, if you don't hit process by-pass and essentially turn this machine off, your guest can sound like they're in a wind tunnel. So watch out for that. But I'm going to turn it back on and hello, hey you're on Valley Free Radio. So, that's the voice processor."
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