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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram story on Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine

Thank God for the internet! A fun personality as well as 60's music to boot. For those of us who appreciate this legendary style and music, thank God for the internet on smart phones.
 
Great show. I listen almost every week. Here's Ricky the K's weekly facebook posting: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ricky-The-Ks-Solid-Gold-Time-Machine/121675337862592 Follow Ricky The K on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/rickythek

Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine.....It's the fun spot on your dial!!!See More]http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rtksgtm

Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine is live with live video tonight at 9 P. M. Eastern, 6 P. M. Pacific. It's the show that authentically recreates the mid 60s sound of WABC and all of the other great mid 60s major market top forty stations complete with 3000 1955-1971 songs, thousands of original 1960s radio commercials, original 1960s audio processing and... jingles and lots of personality and fun. Don't miss it. Follow Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ricky-The-Ks-Solid-Gold-Time-Machine/121675337862592 Follow Ricky The K on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/rickythek

Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine.....It's the fun spot on your dial!!!See More[/url]
 
1960s audio processing? How does that sound on the internet? Can't be much worse than the way it sounded on AM. ;D
 
1960s audio processing? How does that sound on the internet? Can't be much worse than the way it sounded on AM.
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1955-71 music sounds flat and dead without the right audio chain. There is no better example of this than KGVL which plays much of the same music but, has no audio processing of any kind. The audio chain on Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine, which includes plate reverb, gives the music the density and punch that it needs that is lacking on any station using current equipment. Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine audio processing sounds better than the original 1960s radio stations because unlike A. M. radio, Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine has the processing with F. M. quality frequency response and very high fidelity. Listen to the audio on Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time versus the same music on any current radio station and you'll hear a huge positive difference in the quality of the audio.
 
Uncle Ricky has a long running (for years) classified ad in the back of "Radio World" magazine (also on-line) looking for classic RCA microphones and old processing equipment. Does anyone know if he's still based in Garland?

RT, I'm really impressed by your knowledge of Uncle Ricky's operation.
 
dfaulkner said:
It sounds like it sounded on Top 40 AM radio. ;D
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Should say that I meant nothing critical. It reminds me of the airchecks that I've heard of great Top 40 AM radio in it's heydays & of listening to KLIF, KFJZ, WLS, etc, when I was growing up.
 
Uncle Ricky has a long running (for years) classified ad in the back of "Radio World" magazine (also on-line) looking for classic RCA microphones and old processing equipment. Does anyone know if he's still based in Garland?
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Uncle Ricky and Ricky The K are not the same person. Uncle Ricky runs an aircheck site based in Northern California. http://www.reelradio.com
 
I used to listen to Ricky on KOMA in the early 1990s in Chicago.
His show did sound incredible on the big floor console Philco.
That was probably the last time I heard the properly huge 1960s audio treatment on a commercial AM.

And about the same time I began building my own "magic sounding" AM pt 15 so I could listen
to everything on hi-fi AM radios in the future.

The previews sound about as much as like regular AM could have in the day, with perhaps
what seems like too much reverb and upper-end frequencies, but 1 or 2 db falls off both of these
in an on-air xmit/receive path, so what I hear in the demo sounds pretty much like listening to
what a good air monitor should sound like.

In order for the upper end and reverb to sound best on the air where the signal is mid strength , these need to be
maybe 1-2 db hot in a recording straight off the line.

I appreciate anyone taking the pains to make a proper presentation and be critical in an area
many don't even notice or pay attention to.

I like the forward and involved presentation.

What's needed is an app that adds selectable, variable AM effects to any audio file.

Just imagine adding light hiss, medium thunderstorm, variable 10 khz whine and sideband phasing effects
to any and all of of your flat sounding mp3 devices!
 
Uncle Ricky and Ricky The K are not the same person. Uncle Ricky runs an aircheck site based in Northern California.

Yeah, I know that, slip of the fingers on the keyboard. I should have said "Ricky the K has a long running...etc."

I wonder if RtK would ever sneak in a Duncan Sheik record?
 
Tom Wells said:
What's needed is an app that adds selectable, variable AM effects to any audio file.

Just imagine adding light hiss, medium thunderstorm, variable 10 khz whine and sideband phasing effects
to any and all of of your flat sounding mp3 devices!
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That would be fun.
 
There's some Mp3 demos at his site: http://www.60sradio.com/

Reminds me of early/mid-70's FM Top 40 radio before the Optimod became popular... and lots of REVERB!!
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The audio processing is much more representative of mid 60s AM top forty radio but, with FM quality frequency response. It was commonplace for a majority of major market AM top forty stations in the mid 60s to use an EMT 140 plate reverb. Reverb was still used on some AM and FM top forty stations by the mid 70s but, it was less common. The amount of reverb on the demos along with the amount of compression replicates that mid 60s AM top forty sound. If you're one of the people who think the reverb is turned up too high, then you are too young to remember how mid 60s AM top forty radio sounded.
 
Reverb in music is like salt in food. It's clear that there needs to be some. and recorded music has
whatever it has as natural ambience. But like salt which left out on the table for individual adjustment of flavor,
in the 1960s you could buy cheap spring reverb units for cars and homes, if you didn't think
your favorite station sounded BIG enough.

Problem I found in the car was, if you added more reverb to everything, and even things which didn't have it,
within a few months the "brain" began adding reverb when I'd rather not be hearing it.
On auto reverb units, the front speaker was just the plain mono. and the rear speaker became
"all reverb" plus whatever small amount of bypass was built into the unit.
It was real easy to get too much reverb in the mix with an auto unit.

Since then I've become much more careful about how much reverb is in the mix.
Hearing what the WLS reverb sounded like in the mid 70's on their monitor speakers at the studio was...memorable.

But no two stations ever seemed quite the same on their reverb.

Don't change anything on the 'verb, Ricky.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
The audio processing is much more representative of mid 60s AM top forty radio but, with FM quality frequency response. It was commonplace for a majority of major market AM top forty stations in the mid 60s to use an EMT 140 plate reverb. Reverb was still used on some AM and FM top forty stations by the mid 70s but, it was less common. The amount of reverb on the demos along with the amount of compression replicates that mid 60s AM top forty sound. If you're one of the people who think the reverb is turned up too high, then you are too young to remember how mid 60s AM top forty radio sounded.
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I loved the way WLS-AM sounded in the seventies. The reverb made the DJ's and commercials sound huge.

The last two stations I remember that used heavy reverb that way was KTUX Shreveport "Tux-99" in the late 80's when they were CHR . But I think they were using a Orban reverb unit - one of the DJ's who worked there called it "Bathroom Echo".

KOMA-AM/FM in the 90's-early 00's had quite a bit of reverb in their audio chain, I'm not sure when they turned it off.
 
Probably about the same time the started playing bands like The Eagles.... I find it odd hearing 80s music on KOMA-FM. I suppose hearing 80s with reverb would be even odder. For the most part KOMA's reverb was electronic in the 90's-00's. They did inherit and hook up a real plate reverb on the AM for a while after moving into the WKY building.. It certainly had a different sound to it.
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Probably about the same time the started playing bands like The Eagles.... I find it odd hearing 80s music on KOMA-FM. I suppose hearing 80s with reverb would be even odder. For the most part KOMA's reverb was electronic in the 90's-00's. They did inherit and hook up a real plate reverb on the AM for a while after moving into the WKY building.. It certainly had a different sound to it.
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I'm listening to KOMA's webstream right now on headphone and I'm hearing a just slight hint of reverb.. more like a digital delay. It might be a artifact of their Mp3 compression.

I find it strange to hear any 80's oldies on any Classic Hits station.. "Jet Airliner" right into "She Drives Me Crazy" = Trainwreck
 
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