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PDM
PDM Operator's Manual Version 2.4a • September 2019
If talent wants to talk privately with the producer or guest…
…press and hold the blue
COUGH
button. While you’re holding it down, PDM will continue
to send delayed audio to the transmitter. But it won’t store any new audio coming in at the
input. Anything talent says will be heard only in the studio and control room, and won’t go
to air. When you let go of the
COUGH
button, PDM starts to rebuild the delay.
The Cough function is usually used for short comments (and of course, coughs or sneezes)
that won’t last longer than the Dump Size. But it continues to protect your signal during
longer comments: If you hold down the
COUGH
button for more seconds than are stored
in memory, PDM will mute the output. It will also flash the
COUGH
button to warn you of
dead air.
Multi-tasking
Whenever you press the DUMP button, program audio gets dumped… as you’d expect. But
PDM also does other things when you press that button:
a) PDM starts writing a pair of audio files, one of what was broadcast, and one “off-air” of
what actually took place in the studio. You have indisputable records of both what the
listeners heard, and what they didn’t hear because of the dump.
b) It then adds a few seconds of extra audio to these files, taken from before and after the
dump event. This makes it easier to identify the context.
c) PDM stamps the files with the current date and time, and stores them in non-volatile
memory.
d) It sends either the complete files, or text notes that they’ve been created, to e-mail
addresses in your PD-Alert system. Setup instructions are on page 47.
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