TWiRT 342 - Make Money by Saving It with Jim Gray
A penny saved really is a penny earned! Ask Jim Gray who runs Optimized Media Group. Jim and his team do normal broadcast engineering; they also help stations by demonstrating Return on Investment with newer technologies, and sometimes with older equipment. Jim joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack on TWiRT.
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TWiRT 341 - Sports and Studio Mics with Chris Wygal
How many of us broadcast engineers learned by on-the-job training? Have you had a mentor or did you learn by doing it yourself? Chris Wygal is the engineer and ops manager for a network of stations in Virginia and shares with us his tricks for on-location sports production and broadcast studios.
Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
Guest:
Chris Wygal - Operations Manager, The Journey Radio Network, Liberty University
Show Links:
Shure ULX wireless mic transmitter
How to Improve a Studio’s Room Acoustics
Cloudlifter Mic “Activator”
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TWiRT 340 - War Stories with Robbie Green
Move 4 radio studios across town. You’ve got two weeks. Go! Oh, and scrounge some equipment to make the STL systems work with an old T-1 circuit. And, find some time to replace seven FM transmitters with new, solid-state units and full HD Radio. That’s the world of engineer, Robbie Green. Robbie joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack on This Week in Radio Tech.
Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
Guest:
Robbie Green - Market Chief Engineer, CBS Radio, Houston
Show Links:
Studio Technologies Model 214 Talent Console
Soundcraft Si Expression 1 audio mixer
Ethernet Private Line (Carrier Ethernet)
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Topics: Broadcast Engineering, audio, audio quality
TWiRT 339 - Securing What Matters
More hackers, more breaches, more ways for broadcast engineers to have a really bad day! Chris Tobin relates what can happen and the steps you need to take to patch your IT security holes. Plus, Les Kutasi joins us with news from Kathrein and the world of broadband antennas.
Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
Show Links:
Shields UP! Internet Port Test (Click on Services, then Shields UP!)
IT Security podcast, “Security Now”
A Primer on Encryption for Policymakers (and a quick read for all of us)
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Topics: Broadcast Engineering, audio, audio quality
TWiRT 338 - The Standard that Stuck - with Richard Burden
Cassette tapes. 8-Track. Digital Cassettes. FM-QUAD. AM Stereo. Reel-to-reel. Audio standards come and go, but Multiplex FM Stereo lives on and is nearly 60 years old! Richard Burden extensively tested our FM Stereo system when it was just a proposal. Dick joins me to chat about that and more on TWiRT!
Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
Guest:
Richard Burden, Principal - Burden Associates
Show Links:
Stereo Multiplexing for Dummies
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Topics: Broadcast Engineering, audio, audio quality
TWiRT 337 - Predicting Headphone Sound Quality with Sean Olive
How many times have you bought headphones or earbuds, only to be disappointed with their audio quality? Or maybe you were pleasantly surprised! Sean Olive is the Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International. He’s doing headphone qualitative measurements that mean something, both for consumers and for manufacturers, toward better audio from our wearables.
Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting
Guest:
Sean Olive, Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International
Show Links:
Sean Olive’s Blog, with links to articles and research
KZ ATE KZ-ATE Dynamic Balanced Armature IEMS In Ear HIFI Monitors
AKG N60 Noise Canceling Headphone
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Topics: Broadcast Engineering, audio, audio quality