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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Cable Shoots Show Down
From the time the show began on 11-Mar-2008, there were problems. The audio was not right. It just sounded like we were in the mud. I kept changing the settings on the mixer to improve the sound, but it just wasn't working.
Then, I brought Robbie Thomas on--or tried to. He was my guest and was on the telephone. When I tried to bring Robbie on, he could not hear me. Then suddenly, all the indicator lights on my mixer lit up and stayed on. It was as if someone were screaming into every channel on the mixer. And then, things got progressively worse.
I thought the problem was with my equipment. I could not imagine what could possible cause the strange problems we were having, but I was sure it was something wrong in the mixer. I had no choice but to put on a recording of a previous show.
I must say, I was pretty worried about the status of my electronics. I was afraid we were going to have to get a new mixer--something we can ill afford to do at this point.
Well, relief has come! The problem was a problem with my cable provider. I do not know precisely what the problem was, but some type of signal was feeding back up the cable into my equipment. It was powerful.
The cable company took the cable down during the night, and it was down until this afternoon. It is now back up and functioning just fine. You can't imagine how relieved I am to know it was not our equipment fritzing. The show goes on!