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Automation - Scott Studios vs Others

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syvjeff

In my career I've only worked with 3 systems-Prophet Wizard, Prophet NexGen and Scott (prior to that records, carts and cds). My opinion is biased. Scott is a robust playback system that the air talent like using. However as an operator of music and news/talk programming I prefer my experience with Prophet Nexgen. I jokingly say that when I review the days activities, Scott is sublime and Prophet is literal.

I'm happy with the sound of the Scott system where we get our music uncompressed and how for the music stations it just runs. Jocks are happy. Personally I'm still on a steep learning curve with my news-talk station and will overcome this with just experimentation and patience.

Regarding tech support, Prophet is better if you pay for the full boat ticket (they will pick up the phone on Christmas morning) - if you don't pay full ticket, you get what you paid for. Scott requires you to scream for help, not just ask for help. When they do find the fix, you will know it right away.

I'm still waiting for the "new version AI" to come out that I heard about at last Spring NAB.
 
From a PD perspective, jock perspective and tech perspective, I prefer Prophet over Scott. Support seems better - configurations FAR easier to set up - and its plain easier to use on the air.

And Prophet is a whole lot better with audit reports to figure out what happened when after the fact.

Scotts voice-tracking setup as back-asswards. Ducking levels of music are set as part of the VT record process - instead as part of the VT playback process with the on-air machine. Something that was just plain stupid.
 
Prophet is infinitely easier to use than Scott. By the way, regarding the first post, prophet will accept linear or compressed audio. Doesn't matter.

Prophet has far more powerful voicetracking features and is far more flexible, easier to use in a wancast situation, better to search for a particular piece of audio, I could go on for days...
 
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