A couple months back, I taught a seminar about audio for a joint
session of the Connecticut Broadcasters Association and the
local chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. Only about
10 percent of the assembled multitude was directly involved with
audio-the vast majority were "video guys." My presentation was
about dialnorm, metadata and some of the related issues I've
been ranting about in this column for the past few months. At
the lunch break after my presentation, a couple of the
participants told me they wished I had done a lot more on the
basics of audio. They said they had problems with some really
simple things and were really at a point where if the meters
moved, it meant the audio was good. They wanted to do better
than that. In response to that request, I'm going to devote a
couple of columns to audio basics for video folks. I hope you
find it useful, or (if you're an "audio guy/gal") that you can
pass the column on to some of your video colleagues. This month
we'll talk about audio levels. T