Thursday, October 23, 2008

Politics Just Won't Wait

The phone rang at 11:10 AM. "Hi! I am calling from the Hamburger Company, an agency in D.C. and we need to get the Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal into a studio to record a radio spot on Question 1. Do you folks do that sort of thing?"

At Tapeworks the answer of course is yes.

"When do you want to do this?"

"Well the Attorney General is available for an hour this afternoon and we want it on the air tomorrow."

"Okay, let me call you back in 10 minutes."

We were able to juggle things and schedule AG Blumenthal's session for a few hours later, so the agency sent the script via email. Our engineer, Tony Thomas, set up a phone patch with the agency so they could direct the reading from D.C.. At 2 PM the AG drove the 5 minutes from the Capitol to our studio.

He spent half an hour recording and listening to a number of takes of the spot in both English and Spanish. We cleaned up the recording and delivered the final cut by FTP site before 3 PM the same day.

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