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Aircheck Methods
- Thread starter jimoneal
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Frankly, in today's radio game, an aircheck is pretty much whatever you want it to be. If recording from the board is easiest, go for it. Throw it into Audition or your audio editor and put some compression/leveling on it, and you've got yourself an aircheck. When I was a PD and had to listen to airchecks on a regular basis, I focused on the quality of the talent, not the quality of the recording.
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Depends on what you are using the end product for. Be careful if it will be re-aired, like as in best of shows. If your station has PPM, the recording must be made before the PPM encoder so you don't have two seperate codes added when it plays back. This will result in no rating for that period. That rules out actually recording from the air. For just personal use, resume use etc, content is what counts, not path.
To expand on Bilco...
If you are affadaviting spots, take it off a receiver with antenna, not even the mod monitor. For archiving and reuse, take the program feed, predelay is probably the best source. For the PD to counsel the jocks, telescoped from wherever in the chain they like. Telos makes a nice system, we got twelve channels of it assigned in various ways as loggers and telescopes. Back in The Day, Bob Neil was Ops Manager and didn't want a logger at all. He considered it merely a means to get in trouble. He may have been right.
If you are affadaviting spots, take it off a receiver with antenna, not even the mod monitor. For archiving and reuse, take the program feed, predelay is probably the best source. For the PD to counsel the jocks, telescoped from wherever in the chain they like. Telos makes a nice system, we got twelve channels of it assigned in various ways as loggers and telescopes. Back in The Day, Bob Neil was Ops Manager and didn't want a logger at all. He considered it merely a means to get in trouble. He may have been right.
If you want a cheap and easy for one day archive (let the talent go get what they want off it before it re-writes), here's a really cool option:http://www.zillenbiller.de/aircheck/ If you want to pay, you can get long-term archiving from them. I've set up several. It's not nearly as nice as the Telos version, but for little guys or big guys working for "the man" who won't spend money, it rocks.
In the far off days of yore we just racked a tape in the big old Ampex in the corner, punched the big red record button and wah-lah instant air check, resume or audition tape. ;D
]I skim all the stations using Skimmer Plus from BSI. I make a good quality MP3 for streaming and keep the wav too, just in case... Since drives are so cheap and only keep two weeks. It comes from the Program out DA, so it could be used for anything.
Buying that program and a couple of 8 channel ASI cards was one of the smarter things I ever did.
Buying that program and a couple of 8 channel ASI cards was one of the smarter things I ever did.
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