Gosh. What to say here. Youth Pieces are always tough to review. You want to be honest with the PDs who might spend time listening to a piece based on your review, so you want to be honest. On the other hand, you want to inspire the producer and let them know they are working at a great level.
Well, the story is great, the producer has a plan in his head and a wonderful sense of story telling. The topic is one that music folks are always amused by. Shopping music and how it gets on the tape. The interviews and questions are just great and well done. The questions thoughtful and the piece has a beginning, a middle and and end.
Unfortunately, the piece is so poorly recorded and edited that it makes it unairable on any professional radio station. The narration is over modulated, the phone line the interviews are full of buzzes and there are gaps in the editing that at first I thought were dead air. Gosh I hate writing this, but that's what going on here.
I encourage the producer to re record this piece. It's a worthy topic for public radio stations!
Review of Music in Retail Settings
Steve Yasko
Posted on October 22, 2005 at 05:05 AM
Gosh. What to say here. Youth Pieces are always tough to review. You want to be honest with the PDs who might spend time listening to a piece based on your review, so you want to be honest. On the other hand, you want to inspire the producer and let them know they are working at a great level.
Well, the story is great, the producer has a plan in his head and a wonderful sense of story telling. The topic is one that music folks are always amused by. Shopping music and how it gets on the tape. The interviews and questions are just great and well done. The questions thoughtful and the piece has a beginning, a middle and and end.
Unfortunately, the piece is so poorly recorded and edited that it makes it unairable on any professional radio station. The narration is over modulated, the phone line the interviews are full of buzzes and there are gaps in the editing that at first I thought were dead air. Gosh I hate writing this, but that's what going on here.
I encourage the producer to re record this piece. It's a worthy topic for public radio stations!