As an audio engineer this was incredibly hard to read. As a dog owner it was also hard to read. Yes yes the bass rolloff switch & having the mic to the side, that could have been 2 bullet points.
Anything that someone complains could have been summed up with just two bullet points shouldn't be a youtube or tiktok video. What visual element would have helped here? Do you really need to see the switch? Leave video for things where eyeballs are required. Instructional videos that could have been communicated clearly over text are obnoxious.
Goodness! Another person out there on the wild wild web and not wearing their ublock origin suit. How do you even get through a day? I saw no ads, just continuous interview text with a short RHS sidebar at the top.
If your browser/platform won't let you do this, well, you know what to do.
It didn't need to be an interview at all. It was more of a waste of time. Many people value clear, succinct communication. To this kind of person, a rambling interview which could be encapsulated in one sentence is a waste of time.
> Back when I worked in Detroit, we were an RE20 station. And a lot of on-air talent — and we get a little bit of this here at NPR — likes to sound a little bit more authoritative, and they hit the microphone into the flat position to get that bassy sound. In Detroit, we used epoxy to hold all of the switches into a position so that couldn’t happen again. And, honestly, we do see that occasionally here. We’ll hear something bassy and we’ll run up to the studio and, sure enough, somebody switched it.
> Over the past 10 years, you see more computer screens throughout every broadcast plant. And often that microphone is real close to the computer screen: Depending on how close, you can actually hear some of the electronic interference off the computer screen. The computer screen is the big issue. If it is just a little too close to that microphone, your voice is reflecting off of it.
These sorts of anecdotes were selected from this engineer's mass of experience because of the natural, free-flowing form of an interview, and the informed interviewer's knowledge of the field.
Demanding everything be reduced down to a sentence or two of instruction – much less calling it a waste of time – completely misses the point of this form of communication.
> These sorts of anecdotes were selected from this engineer's mass of experience because of the natural, free-flowing form of an interview, and the informed interviewer's knowledge of the field.
The saddest thing is, informed interviewers are rare these days :(
I always find it uncomfortable to read an interview rather than listen to it. You must realize that part of what keeps NPR interesting is the story telling aspect. I don't always appreciate NPR host acting but I can understand why they do it. Story telling is not about bullet points.
Superglue!