When Worlds Collide

[figmo]

A conversation at the day job yesterday went like this:

Co-Worker: Did you know there's a woman on the radio with the same exact name as you? She's on 1590, KLIV.

Me: (Going into my usual KLIV shtick in my "radio voice") Lynn Gold, 1590, KLIV, Silicon Valley's News Station and the South Bay's home for CNN Headline News."

CW: So you've heard of her?

Comments

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

Actually, at one time during my IT career, I did have a co-worker that was a radio announcer. He did sound a lot different in person than over the radio, even when he was using his 'radio voice.'

It seems they wanted a guy with a exaggeratedly strong resonant voice. The result was sexy, yes; but it wasn't his natural voice: they accomplished the effect with a bit of low-pass filtering and amplification at the station.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

My radio voice is that low. They don't filter the newspeople.

What does happen, though, is the mike's pickup pattern does stuff to my voice to make it sound a bit different.