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Role of the Radio Program Director Now versus Then

Okay, Bob - for all your marbles...


How did we speed up songs on the Q? What was the actual method we used to make the songs go faster?

Hint - It's 1976, and turntables did NOT have variable speeds.

Your answer, please...
 
radioboymark said:
Okay, Bob - for all your marbles...


How did we speed up songs on the Q? What was the actual method we used to make the songs go faster?

Hint - It's 1976, and turntables did NOT have variable speeds.

Your answer, please...
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Hmmm....Randy Michaels was involved, so if I can guess....It was a home brewed device located in a shielded building behind 1906 Highland Avenue that altered the time/space continuum causing the turntable to play faster while at the same time chilled a keg of beer better than any cooler in town.

Actually, I know the answer but I will let Bob take a shot :)
 
YEKIMI said:
I know how it was done cause I used to do the same thing......but I ain't telling!
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I know how we did it... we wrapped the turntable capstan (?) with splicing tape. The more you wrap--the faster the song.
 
While many of you are on the right path, no one has gotten the exact answer.

Q102 hyped songs a specific percentage.. with one specific method. If my memory serves me correctly, this method was tested and had to be revised a couple of times, and involved a different formula for one of the station's turntables that was different than the others.

Answer coming soon..
 
radioboymark said:
While many of you are on the right path, no one has gotten the exact answer.

Q102 hyped songs a specific percentage.. with one specific method. If my memory serves me correctly, this method was tested and had to be revised a couple of times, and involved a different formula for one of the station's turntables that was different than the others.

Answer coming soon..
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I got it... you put the tt in neutral and hand spun the sucker!
 
My answer for speeding up a turntable back then was replacing the factory cam with a modified one so the platter would rotate faster. Wrapping it tape does work but leaves a nasty goo. Plus, if you added tape as a clandestine operation and the engineer found it there was usually hell to pay.
 
And everybody denied doing it so the engineer could fume and fuss all he wanted. Alcohol took care of the tape goo if you remembered to take off the tape. The only "rule" I think everyone paid attention to was "ABSOLUTELY NO LIQUIDS ALLOWED NEAR THE BOARD, TURNTABLES, CARTS OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF ELECTONIC EQUIPMENT!" Drooling DJ's were fired quickly!
 
The answer to speeding up the turntable the right percentage back in the 70's:

One cart label, wrapped carefully around the metal drive shaft. (Just one, not two.) Right where the rubber fly wheel from the motor drives the shaft. Wrapped so the flywheel won't dislodge the label. And for gosh sakes, in the 70's the engineers were all getting their blow and chicks from the programming people. so they didn't care what we did.... ::)
 
radiorob2.0 said:
if you added tape as a clandestine operation and the engineer found it there was usually hell to pay.
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Make that ALWAYS hell to pay. We were lucky, our CE was so old he couldn't see the wrap job.
 
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