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Best Production in the Region?

A recent post in the "MP103" string mentioned something about the best production being hidden somewhere in Colchester, VT...What does everyone else think? Who is the best production person in VT, NH and ME? What station has the best imaging? What station, overall has the best production team?

Your thoughts?
 
Who's the production guy in Bangor who used to work for CC but now works across the street at Cumulus? His name escapes me but he'd get my vote.
 
Let's be honest here since we're apparently dealing in beads. A budding beer aficianado, ironically named Ryan "Scotch", produced imaging for a rock station back in the day. Light years, some might say, ahead of the station itself at the time. Although he did have a penchant, albeit hidden, for Supertramp and Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand, he blatantly ripped off riffs from the likes of TOOL and Alice in Chains to make the station sound hipper than the rest of the tired old "laser beam" classic rock stations. The tragic end came years before it should have. Unforseen events involving his family, a nightclub fire and a certain volatile red head eventually led to the clearing and cleaning out of his modest third floor desk, thus silencing the voice and prematurely ending the constant, yet deserved, mental torture of the sales staff that occupied the second floor of that haunted building. I hear that he still wonders why the hell the Vermont Highway Department waits until after the morning commute to plow the highways. Maybe some questions are never meant to be answered.......
 
ray ting said:
Who's the production guy in Bangor who used to work for CC but now works across the street at Cumulus? His name escapes me but he'd get my vote.

That would be Thom Osborne... and he's a real pro!
 
I agree, Osbourne does some extremely creative work. I also like Scomo at WKIT. He does some very funny stuff.
 
Yes...but who? In the Rutland market I hear production out of Kiss/WSYB that blows others in the area away. Don't remember the name...a part-timer, I think.
 
DB James, the morning host and production guru at the station. Terry Jaye does great stuff too..Just to give you a few. Frank Gonzales is the parttimer on WSYB / 97.1 does great work as well !
 
I was of course joking with the above post. In my experience, production/imaging that REALLY fit in with the station's sound always impressed me the most. You can have all the swooshes, voice pitches and lasers you want but most of the time it's flashier than the station itself. A few years back I was a fan of Triple X's production and imaging. I thought they really sounded big time for being in such a small market. I don't know who the person was but it really sounded pro. On the flip side, WIZN's production was horrible at the time. Of course that was a few years ago.....
 
ghostofbillhicks said:
A few years back I was a fan of Triple X's production and imaging. I thought they really sounded big time for being in such a small market. I don't know who the person was but it really sounded pro.

Jeff Thomas!
 
Jeff Thomas was prod/image director for XXX? Well kudos to him. I was the image director at a rock station up there at that time, (2003-2004), and I really tried to get rid of that small market sound by applying my bigger market experiences. He really used that same mentality and made XXX sound like the stations I heard when I would go to NY and So. Cal. I don't see any reason that small market stations can't sound big, or why classic rock stations can't utilize some active rock imaging elements. The music can tend to get stale so why not beef up what goes in between? I used a ton of Frostbytes work parts and some of the AV Deli library and of course riffs from bands. Using the Cool Edit software. What types of tools and libraries work for you guys?
 
I'm a massive fan of ABC's CHR imaging library Continuous Climax. It gives our Hot AC an edge and sets us apart from many of the other New England Hot AC's(monikers withheld to protect the woosh/zap heavy).
Also, we use ABC's Audio Clip Art. These contain tonnes of generic "I'm _____________" type Hot AC artist drops.
 
how about production when it comes to college stations? who would think the best is? it sure as hell probably ain't us but I wounldnt be suprised if we were thrown in the mix. there is a college station in bangor that I know does pretty good as a communication school.
 
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