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In reply to the discussion: Trayvon Martin's friend and a key witness made a lot more sense than you think [View all]Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)68. Ok
Compression reduces dynamic range. Thus, the loud is not so loud. Furthermore if you gained it with compression you squash the dialogue into the room tone.
They can only turn the court PA up so much for various reasons including feedback.
I think it would be highly unlikely for a district court PA to have a compressor in the chain, either as a rack unit or plug-in. Perhaps the amp itself may have a cheap one built in, but it's not the solution here and probably hasn't been touched since its initial setup.
I also doubt that neither the court nor the TV broadcast had a dedication "sound guy," but rather a media guy and a truck guy respectively.
Understandably she was quiet, but needed to speak up.
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Trayvon Martin's friend and a key witness made a lot more sense than you think [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Jun 2013
OP
Yes... her volume was my issue.. I am surprised they didn't do something to improve the microphone
hlthe2b
Jun 2013
#5
wow... your post has so many ugly undercurrents, I don't even know where to start....
hlthe2b
Jun 2013
#6
Were you born this racist or did you have to study for years to achieve it? n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#10
you said it in a thread about Rachel Jeantel --are you saying she's British or Canadian?
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#82
Are you serious?! American dialect alone has numerous variations. North South East West.
JaneyVee
Jun 2013
#11
thank you...there is so much shame, fear, ignorance, misunderstanding and racism
noiretextatique
Jun 2013
#31
Agreed. But it is often spoken in combination with English as are the others I mentioned.
nolabear
Jun 2013
#57
So you think she had a mastery of verb tenses and was lying about what she said?
displacedtexan
Jun 2013
#18
Chris Hayes had a linguistics professor on last night to address just this issue, and he
K Gardner
Jun 2013
#7
True linguistics study will tap Gullah and other real forms. However, what some like to refer to as
mfcorey1
Jun 2013
#53
That's awfully presumptuous of the writer to assume she was being disingenuous
apples and oranges
Jun 2013
#49
Instead of asking AGG to define it for you, you should take the time to make a case,
Judi Lynn
Jun 2013
#88