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Do you still have access to turntables at your station?

I engineer Georgia State University's WRAS, Atlanta. There are two, heavily used, 1200's in the control room and one in production.
The woman who hosts the Sunday afternoon Jazz show is married to an audiophile who insists she play vinyl, if possible. She even brings in her own cartridges/styli.
None of the mix show DJs use the TTs anymore.
 
Ah, starting to bring back memories of the Russco Cue Master!

I remember that, while in high school, I toured the hottest FM in the market. The DJ let me place an album onto the Cue Master, move the gear, back-cue, and then finally press the remote start on the board. I was in heaven, so excited that I called my girlfriend at the time so that she would listen to my track on the air (Don't Misunderstand Me, Rossington Collins Band).

I had the radio bug and there was no turning back!
 
Anyone still using a Otari Reel to Reel. Are you still getting some spots on tape?
 
Haven't used an Otari for 12 years now. Most spots come via email or FTP, a few still on CD. The last spot I ever got on tape was probably 1999 or so. With the price of blank media, and the price of email (free) it makes no sense for an agency to send out something that most stations don't even have a means to play back.

I contract for 7 stations. Only one of them has any tape at all in the building, and it's archival material. Most don't even have a cassette machine anymore. Why bother? You can record on a PC and save it on a flash drive or iPod if you want to take it home with you.
 
Still have turntables in every studio I ever maintained or built. Still have open reel machines available and they're still used. Sometimes both are good for special event programming.
 
I have a turntable/tone arm question, but it's for my home retro studio. I have a pair of Russco Studio Pros with Micro Trak 303 tone arms. They were rescued from the first station I worked at. The tone arm height is adjustable at the pivot. This, of course affects the stylus to record angle. What is the optimum stylus angle or tone arm pivot height?
 
WNTIRadio said:
Haven't used an Otari for 12 years now. Most spots come via email or FTP, a few still on CD. The last spot I ever got on tape was probably 1999 or so. With the price of blank media, and the price of email (free) it makes no sense for an agency to send out something that most stations don't even have a means to play back.
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There was a new station around here which went on the air in 1998, with all-new, all-digital studios. It was going great until a spot came in on tape! Luckily a nearby public radio station allowed them to use their comparatively antiquated equipment to transfer it.
 
Great info on the 15 degrees. But that is between the record and... what? The tone arm or the stylus tip. I've noticed that the tip of the stylus is at an angle to the cartridge. I would say that the actual tip that contacts the record should be true perpindicular.
 
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