avoiding dead time on radio during live broadcasts

From an email sent to my colleagues.

It has been our practice to avoid dead time on the radio during mandir live broadcasts by playing the file BI.mp3 which can be found on the desktop of the mandir mac.

The procedure is -

• drag and drop the BI.mp3 into the track corresponding is knob 4 (input 12) ahead of time, if you anticipate a period of silence

• click on the record enable button - red button next to the fader on the onscreen mixer - to disable record enable (so that the mp3 gets played out instead of the input from that channel)

• fade in the music within 2-3 seconds of silence, and fade out similarly. 

• Once bhajans start (or some program starts where input 12 is needed) again click record enable to enable that input.
  
• Another point to be noted is: Please DO NOT save the project when you quit. (If recorded, the wav file is saved automatically.)