Sound Problems During MTV Forum: Goofup or Intentional?

[nightlight]

He should have asked to get an extra 2-3 minutes he lost on bad audio. Or at least to have that question and answer replyed.

 

[Renegades]

Yeah satellite connections are hokey...take your tin foil hat off.

Exactly.
I can hear him just fine....

 

[coastie]

While the sound had some issues for me, I never could totally not hear him...

 

[RonPaulMTV]

I've seen video of the first part where they cleaned the sound up and fixed it. Why is the official Myspace video of part 1 still bad? It's not like it's live, so they should have fixed it, plus his is the only one that went bad. This is another example of intentional sabotage, just a little more subtle (not so subtle to us though).

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=27491959

 

[ziggrl]

It's funny how it didn't happen to Huckabee who was first. The trouble may have been on RP's end. I'm all for conspiracy, but I need to digest this a bit more to believe it was.

Maybe it was just RP's luck. Maybe I have such bad luck and since I was watching . . . .

 

[Matt Collins]

I am a professional audio engineer.

I have run sound for Dr. Paul, the Governor of Florida, Charlie Daniels Band, Papa Roach, the TN Titans Head Coach, Tom Joyner, and many others.

I can assure everyone here that this was NOT intentional. In highly complex broadcast situations like this mistakes are not uncommon neither is equipment failure. It happens.

My guess is that it was some sort of phase problem which added harmonics. This could've been caused by some sort of cross-talk internally either in a cable or some faulty equipment.

Without knowing their setup and the signal chain I wouldn't be able to tell for sure.

 

[Matt Collins]

He should have asked to get an extra 2-3 minutes he lost on bad audio. Or at least to have that question and answer replyed.

Ron didn't know what happened. In fact the people in the studio didn't seem to know what happened. Only the outgoing signal to the satellite or master control would know what was going on. Ron hears something completely different than what the room hears. And the room hears something completely different than what the TV audience and Ron hears. It's a very complex situation.

 

[Chemicalman]

stop chasing your shadow...

This from Lew Rockwell. Not everything is a conspiracy.

It was NOT intentional

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019128.html

 

[RPinUptownChi]

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[CrazyRonPaulSupporter]

A goofup. I streamed it from the MTV page when it was live, and the sound came out just fine. Some minor broadcast distortions for the first 3 min, in stereo it was still audible what Ron Paul was saying, but after that it was a clean sound the whole way. Uploading it to YouTube made it go mono and it phased out the sound from Ron's mic. The MTV files Ron's voice is still loud and clear (including the distortions).


Ron's performance was so great and jaw dropping that Chris (the online poll guy) had to say our positive numbers for Ron Paul was organized by the man himself and a couple of online spam bots. He got even more frustrated when it turned out that Obama's numbers was lower than Ron's. He was panicking and just mumbled the Obama numbers in the end. It was a joy to see Chris start to shake and sweat during Ron Paul's dialogue, and then having a nervous breakdown seeing the shitty numbers after the Obama dialogue!! PRICELESS!!


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[jeffersonT]

Though my immediate reaction was a sarcastic unsurprised "well...'ain't' that somethin'?"...

I think it was probably just a malfunction/"goof-up".

 

[chiplitfam]

MTV sucks.

 

[HollyforRP]

intentional... what about the "disclaimer" at the end... "attention sheep, the candidate you have just seen is irrelevant. a vote for him is a waste.."

WTF was that!

I didn't see that. Is there a clip of it somewhere?