mw963 (post #41) back to Hereford. Thanks for all the technical info. But the beginning of the service was a complete cock-up and nothing to do with R4's vicious compression. I don't know if they've preserved the first 5 mins on i-player just as it was broadcast, but if they have, it has to be heard to be believed.
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Indeed ardcarp. I'm just listening to it on the iplayer now. It's absolutely hilarious.
As I say, on Sunday I only heard the last ten minutes or so of the broadcast, by which time most of the sound desk problems had been resolved, leaving us just with the horrible network compression.Comment
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Actually the compression is pretty horrible even on the iplayer. So I'm wondering if one of the problems that WASN'T resolved by rebooting the computer was that the desk compressor/limiters were all set to act too actively.
Nothwithstanding any of that, Sunday Worship does often sound pretty awful, for the reasons I've outlined above.
Apologies for leaving not only the current topic but even straying onto the wrong radio network!Comment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Simon, you and I certainly agree about GG and John's. Nostalgic? Well, maybe, except that we have recordings of that time to compare with how the choir sounds to day. ditto KCC under Willcocks and Cleobury via Ledger.
Whatever, this KCC archive service would not excite the stable block.Comment
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I noticed the hymn was slower than is usual these days. I don't think that the speed of hymns in KCC services has speeded up that much - but I know from singing on broadcasts myself that hymns are taken at an unusually fast pace 'so they don't sound draggy on the broadcast'. It sounds as if this didn't happen in 1981 - I wonder when the speeding up of broadcast hymns started, and whether it affected all broadcast services (including Daily Service and the Sunday morning one) at the same time?Comment
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It has also been known for the speed of the final hymn to be dictated by the DoM's watch as he sees the final minutes of the broadcast going down the plug-hole. This was especially true in the 45 minute days. Does anyone remember when the time was increased to an hour? I wonder if Wednesday's CE was one of the 45 min ones, but with the organ voluntary un-faded?Comment
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I see that the Choral Evensong website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r) has posted the schedule up to the end of March.Comment
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Indeed, and Gloucester are down to do Ash Wednesday. Hmm.Comment
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What does the ... Hmm ... signify?
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Merely that for the most part recently, St J's at Cantab have seemed to take it. Hereford notably in 2012, Liverpool Met had Mass for Ash Wednesday in 2008
I was actually rather pleased to see it being moved around, but wondered if it had caused any ruffle at John's, that was all?Comment
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Gosh, I never thought of that. Thanks.Comment
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Really? I seem not to have a record of that. Could you possibly ask them when this was?Comment
Good to hear an old Coll:Reg:Rant. 
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