From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: voluminous audio on commercials
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:43:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: peak.LARRY.92Jul21074323
Distribution: alt.peeves
Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory

I'll had it up to here (about my neck) with TV commercials that blare out
at twice the volumn of the program itself. It's made even worse by all the
audio compression applied to commercials, which are designed to keep the
modulation VU meters at 100%.

MiniPeeve: Marketeers who misuse the noble work we Engineers do
           to produce evil audio compression for their goddam
           advertisements.

A call to the local cable TV to complain about their insertion spots yielded
an acknowledgement of the problem, with some whining excuse about the
difficulties of "matching the levels on the feeds". To which I asked,
"Well, gee, isn't this the BUSINESS you folks are trying to be in?" I also
reminded the fellow that the FCC might have something to say about such
practices, and that the feed level errors always seemed to result in the
commercial levels being way too high..

Just another reason for not watching commercial television.

RelatedPeeve: Cher. Damn her, anyway. Here, after Mask and several other
              outstanding intelligent, high quality acting jobs, I had
              begun to respect her genius. Now she is hawking some hair
              products in one of those Amazing Discovery (the discovery
              which is so amazing being that you will watch a commercial
              for 30 minutes straight..) type programs. Pure airhead mode.

OK, Cher! Back into your diaper! Get nasty.. That's better. (I guess I can
still appreciate Cher's "genius" on some level.)

	["I got YOOOU, Babe!"]

EqualPeeve: Dionne Warwick, on the Psychic Amazing Discoveries program.
            Another highly talented female shot to hell.

OKWithMeHowever: Jessica Hahn, who sang in the church choir and apparently 
                 played soprano skin flute (supplied by Jimmy Baker) as 
                 well, has frizzed her hair up and now "stars" in her own 
                 Amazing Discovery type program about Female Fantasies.

	"Ooohh. I just want a darling romantic man who will love me
         and will be very romantic and then we will have dinner and then
         it turns out he's a millionaire and he'll let me be myself and
         just love me a lot.."

AndIWonder: How Tammy Faye is doing nowadays.

AndIAlsoWonder: How Jimmy is doing nowadays. Does he get TV and see
                Jessica and sigh?

(Yes, I know. I'm not a very nice person. [I'm Evil Engineer, not Nice
Engineer..])

L. 
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Oh sure, we could do it the _easy_ way. But it just wouldn't be the COWBOY WAY.