Volume Control
HE listener who wrote a protest avumt uncontrolled dynamics in broadcasting has only re-voiced a complaint which has been made again and again by listener and critic alike. One of the most annoying things about listening to an entire evening’s programme is the frequency with which one has to get up and alter the volume-control. But can’t this be done on the spot, in the studio? The British critic Basil Maine explains the reasons for studio control in an article, "The Control’ of Broadcast Music." In this article he describes a visit to the Balance and Control Department of the BBC, where he found a Mr. Stanton Jeffries in charge, following every broadcast work with a full score! The result of having a musician as technician in this department, he says, was that the composer was kept in the centre of the picture, and his work so carefully controlled that each nuance and variation of tone was given the fullest value possible. But I imagine that in a small country like New Zeeland, radio technicians who can follow a major orchestral work with an expert knowledge of the full score are so few os to be countable on the fingers of one and. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 11
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205Volume Control New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 11
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