Here's an N2FNH secret advisory:
The Random Access Thought (or File), the associated RAT (or RAF) promo and the weekly QSL Card Y'all Come-and-Get-It! thing all offer something more than theatrically trained actors, top drawer production value and hideously expensive, extremely difficult-to-locate-and-obtain vintage sound effects.
There are also what some might refer to as the Easter Eggs. That would be those voices at -18 dB and below.
Chances are you've heard them, but you haven't really heard them, at least not yet. In my more youthful whippersnapper days, I was a A-Number One Fan of the sociologist author Wilson Bryan Key and his books which documented some marvelous technique on subliminal persuasion within the advertising media. I read three: Subliminal Seduction, Media Sexploitation and the Clam Plate Orgy. Much was detailed in each volume regarding subliminal sound. Whether or not you opt to buy into his sure-sounds-like-a-conspiracy-theory theories or not, this is something we can haggle over Chinese Lunch some day.
But in the meantime, pay close attention.
During each production run, short voice tracks are slipped in at random places within the body of each N2FNH program. Here's a spoiler: usually...Usually...at the end of the promos and at the end of the Random Access "Disconnecting From..." outro, there may be short voice clips from motion pictures, television shows or animated cartoons. But more than likely, they are itty bitty sound bites from my son Zach or from my virtual character ensemble. Because they are usually...Usually...at the tail end and because George W2XBS executes tight editing between program elements, the casual listener may subconsciously detect the clip but may also be sonically overtaken by the subsequent program material.
However, should you be tuned into a Podcast Recording of This Week in Amateur Radio...on your MP3 player...
In each of my production pieces, audio levels are assigned as floors in a cheesy dingy downtown three-story office building. Thus, voice content and primary sound effects are placed at the top floor from 0 dB down to about -12dB. If there is music, that element is positioned one floor down from -12 dB to -24 dB. Any sort of environmental back track, such as ham shack sounds, street traffic or birds outside, is referenced from -18 dB to -40 dB and this is pretty much
the basement level. It is here in within this amplitudinous realm, that the almost-quasi-semi- obliminal-if-not-really-subliminal voices may be heard.
NOW DON'T PANIC! N2FNH is making NO ATTEMPT to seduce your subconscious into buying popcorn or soda!
popcorn.....buy!
soda...........buy!
But! Like all Easter Eggs patiently waiting to be discovered, this is your one and only clue to locate them, admittedly with a boatload of explanatory floobus attached.
And! Since you alone are reading this, only you and you alone know my secret!
The Random Access Thought (or File), the associated RAT (or RAF) promo and the weekly QSL Card Y'all Come-and-Get-It! thing all offer something more than theatrically trained actors, top drawer production value and hideously expensive, extremely difficult-to-locate-and-obtain vintage sound effects.
There are also what some might refer to as the Easter Eggs. That would be those voices at -18 dB and below.
Chances are you've heard them, but you haven't really heard them, at least not yet. In my more youthful whippersnapper days, I was a A-Number One Fan of the sociologist author Wilson Bryan Key and his books which documented some marvelous technique on subliminal persuasion within the advertising media. I read three: Subliminal Seduction, Media Sexploitation and the Clam Plate Orgy. Much was detailed in each volume regarding subliminal sound. Whether or not you opt to buy into his sure-sounds-like-a-conspiracy-theory theories or not, this is something we can haggle over Chinese Lunch some day.
But in the meantime, pay close attention.
During each production run, short voice tracks are slipped in at random places within the body of each N2FNH program. Here's a spoiler: usually...Usually...at the end of the promos and at the end of the Random Access "Disconnecting From..." outro, there may be short voice clips from motion pictures, television shows or animated cartoons. But more than likely, they are itty bitty sound bites from my son Zach or from my virtual character ensemble. Because they are usually...Usually...at the tail end and because George W2XBS executes tight editing between program elements, the casual listener may subconsciously detect the clip but may also be sonically overtaken by the subsequent program material.
However, should you be tuned into a Podcast Recording of This Week in Amateur Radio...on your MP3 player...
In each of my production pieces, audio levels are assigned as floors in a cheesy dingy downtown three-story office building. Thus, voice content and primary sound effects are placed at the top floor from 0 dB down to about -12dB. If there is music, that element is positioned one floor down from -12 dB to -24 dB. Any sort of environmental back track, such as ham shack sounds, street traffic or birds outside, is referenced from -18 dB to -40 dB and this is pretty much
the basement level. It is here in within this amplitudinous realm, that the almost-quasi-semi- obliminal-if-not-really-subliminal voices may be heard.
NOW DON'T PANIC! N2FNH is making NO ATTEMPT to seduce your subconscious into buying popcorn or soda!
popcorn.....buy!
soda...........buy!
But! Like all Easter Eggs patiently waiting to be discovered, this is your one and only clue to locate them, admittedly with a boatload of explanatory floobus attached.
And! Since you alone are reading this, only you and you alone know my secret!
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