Who listened in?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by podakayne

heard you friday from work and at home...no complaints over all

got in a coupla hours on saturday (sorry didn't really notice improvements—too many household distractions ruining my listening pleasure) ...nice to feel like you're part of the "being there" experience.

thanks VAX!!! i enjoyed it!!!

The noise was from one of the laptop's external power supply (wallwart) getting picked up in the audio lines. From the board was a mishmash of balanced and unbalance lines, XLR couplers, RCA to 1/4" phone plug and 1/4" to 1/8" phone plug. Bill Fox (bass for Pinnacle) recognised the sound when we were able to isolate it on Saturday and suggested using a grounded to ungrounded cheater plug to remove the ground loop. The sound disappeared as soon as the coupler was used. I've already stashed that little bit of knowledge safely away for future ref in the dark recesses of ye olde brainbox.

Davin recorded the shows from the output of my second sound card. I'll see if he can upload them. I'd love to put one up on Tuesday in the usual Gags replay time-slot. We normally record them on the station itself but I didn't want to tax that box too much since I was already tunneling the feed via ssh (a large amount of number crunching) to the station. The station is already busy enough running SAM and doing all of the stream encoding for the 3 MP3 streams and 2 AAC streams as well as serving the 128Kmp3 patron streams.

I'm very pleased that everyone thought that the sound quality was good. I'd like to stream the Gags show to AM the same way each Saturday eve. At least that would get rid of one of the common gripes about the Gagliarchives from listeners. Sorry, technology hasn't yet advanced enough to elide the PSAs.

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Originally Posted by VAXman

Sorry, technology hasn't yet advanced enough to elide the PSAs.

Well, they can filter SPAM. What's the Difference?