If you have the geek gene, I have posted old radio pictures from what was called "my career" on my facebook page. Even if you don't, I have still posted them. If you wanna see them, hunt me down, and look in the photo collection "old radio stuff". If you don't, then go on with whatever cool thing you were already doing.
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- Thread starter robgrayson
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Well, I saw some of the pictures and they are a fun look back at my predecessors in radio. I love the headphones from that era, including those with knobs for panning left/right. The only time I see headphones that size now are when you're pulling into the terminal on an airplane and the guys on the tarmac have them for protection. ;D
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Ahh, the old Koss Pro 4 AA's. Great sound, great feel, but rather heavy. I attribute my tinnitus, and the fact that whenever my wife says anything, she knows to repeat it after I say "huh?", to my years wearing the Koss Pro 4 AA's.
karsonwithak said:
If the picture you saw was of Rob wearing Koss Pro 4AA's, the knob did not pan L-R. It unscrewed and allowed you to attach a microphone on a little mini boom. I never saw them used for anything but play-by-play and for intercom communication by producers.
DeadElvis said:
Yeah, but those Koss Kans sounded great. The thing I hated about them was their weight. I once gave my self a bruise due to the spring action when I was taking them off when I was in a hurry. They should have called them Koss Bricks.
Per the strat: What I am playing in these pictures is probably either a Fender Jazz Bass (the black one), or a 5-String Fender Precision Bass (the red one). When I play now, usually either in church or with Decades (www.decadesmemphis.com), I use the Jazz bass. Not being one to put on airs, and keeping with my abilities, I tend to stick to the cheap end, so they were both Fender "Squire" models.
I keep a squire strat around for emergencies, but if it's me playing guitar, it's an emergency.
I keep a squire strat around for emergencies, but if it's me playing guitar, it's an emergency.
Re: Koss Super Pro's... I, too, loved their sound. But being a little guy with a pencil neck--factory-wired for geekdom--I just couldn't hang with all that weight. And I remembered how great my home HV1A's were. Imagine the shock--and increased deafness--I got, the first time I clicked the mic on, with just that little bit of foam rubber between my ears and the WHBQ processing. Tinnitus--the sound track of my life.
Back in the day when radio stations made money, WHBQ actually bought headphones for the individual jocks. The choices were pretty well Koss Pro 4 AA's or Clevite-Brush. The Clevite-Brush were extremely light, and had the frequency response of a telephone reciever earpiece.
At WREC when I started there in '69, there were "cans" in each control/production/news room...the old bakelite 500 ohm jobs that look just like WWII military issue. We finally got some Sennheisers in for several years until it became necessary that we supply our own sets. You could really give your nose or side of your head a telling shot if you allowed those cans to slip out of one hand when removing them. Talk about surface tinnitus!
robgrayson said:
Huh?!? What?!? Sorry didn't hear ya.
You mean that ringging in my ears is NOT suppose to be there? Well damn.
BTW - I've stepped up to the Sony MDR-V700's now -- lighter than the 600's and a bit better constructed.
The bakelite ones were the Clevite Brush phones. They kinda made you feel as if you should be taking down morse code from the Titanic.
I had a brief moment as a trumpet player back in school. The highlight came my junior year on our big concert night. I swapped shifts at WDDT so I could get off early (i.e. before sunset). While I was on, I got a call telling me the first chair trumpet got hit in the mouth with a pitch at baseball practice. I would be, in essence, sight reading first chair that night. Fortunately, I come along in the era before comcorders, so no evidence of my performance exists.
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