[LAD] OT: Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 13:25 +0000, John Rigg wrote: Keeping a job depends to several things. I once had a boss who ask me to repair a "stereo microphone". This "stereo microphone" was a Sennheiser MD421. He already had "soldered" the cable, I won't call the soldering joints he made, soldering joints. XLR to 6.3mm, aka ¼" stereo jack and connected it to the stereo connector of a cassette recorder. It didn't work. So the "Tonmeister" (master of audio and video engineering) never heard about a balanced connection, he was convinced that it must be a stereo connection. I only was "technischer Angestellter" (an ordinary engineer without papers). Everybody was laughing about this idiot, today a lot of people aren't laughing anymore, but they hate him, they had to sue him, he is still well known in my hometown, he has got the talent to get money from communal art funding etc.. The funny thing is, that the studio had phasing issues, before I started working there and a radio station rejected to play productions made by this studio. This didn't matter, because the money came from communal art funding, youth project founding etc.. When they sue him, it wasn't easy, since he had enough "friends" in important communal positions.