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Our station is in need of a knowledgeable Engineer for Pristine older systems anyone knows of anyone?
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Good years ago. Liked the Pristine system. Pristine is a system whose time has come and gone. If you are using the cd system unit or even the newer one...why waste your time and energy on a system that is questionable.
Buy a new system that is supported and you can get cards for and is reliable.
Digital Jukebox is $600 through the end of the year. Rip all those old cd's to hard drive.
If you don't like that try the free Raduga or another system that is current.(And free)
All the new systems have plus and minus properties. Even the worst is many times better than the old pristine and has more uptime.
Having built many of the old early digital systems I can't imagine spending time on those for any reason when better technology with more uptime and less callbacks to fix is available.
I had an old gates sytem with reels and a 55. Cna't imagine even keeping one for sentimental reasons these days.
Buy a new system that is supported and you can get cards for and is reliable.
Digital Jukebox is $600 through the end of the year. Rip all those old cd's to hard drive.
If you don't like that try the free Raduga or another system that is current.(And free)
All the new systems have plus and minus properties. Even the worst is many times better than the old pristine and has more uptime.
Having built many of the old early digital systems I can't imagine spending time on those for any reason when better technology with more uptime and less callbacks to fix is available.
I had an old gates sytem with reels and a 55. Cna't imagine even keeping one for sentimental reasons these days.
ChiefEngineer said:Good years ago. Liked the Pristine system. Pristine is a system whose time has come and gone. If you are using the cd system unit or even the newer one...why waste your time and energy on a system that is questionable.
Buy a new system that is supported and you can get cards for and is reliable.
I have to second that, especially on the issue of support.
ChiefEngineer said:Digital Jukebox is $600 through the end of the year. Rip all those old cd's to hard drive.
Having done the initial review of the Digital Jukebox in Radio World, the DOS version was ok, but the lack of support and buggy Windows-version software is one reason I didn't pursue this piece of ... er, software.
ChiefEngineer said:If you don't like that try the free Raduga or another system that is current.(And free)
I've never used Raduga but know lots of folks using it. A great inexpensive system is StationPlaylist, which I've installed in a few places. It's priced about half of the "sale" priced Digital Jukebox (and that's the everyday price for SPL) and the support is responsive and good.
Here's the Radio World review: http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0051/t.6496.html
ChiefEngineer said:I had an old gates sytem with reels and a 55. Cna't imagine even keeping one for sentimental reasons these days.
I had a Gates golden oldie - an SC-48 with all those thumbwheel switches to select the sources. I loved the sound of the relays but since time marches on I donated it to a scrap vendor.
Used one of those in the early 80's on a beautiful music format...and Scully 270's for playback...most reliable and user friendly system I have ever seen...the operators could see what was happening, and figure out what to do if there was a problem....more complicated is not (almost never) better...JBI
I first saw an SC-48 while I was in my early teens when I got a peak at a local beautiful music station. When you entered their lobby there was a giant glass window that allowed visitors to view the automation system. Little did I know I would own one of these gems some 12 years later! There was a second box that went with the SC-48 controller but I don't remember what it did - of course it was 21 years ago.
Bill DeFelice said:There was a second box that went with the SC-48 controller but I don't remember what it did
Very likely, that second box was an RA-5. The RA-5 could control up to 5 random access carousels.
Gates also had the SP-10 and SP-19. These were decided upgrades from the SC-48, and used a cart for memory. You created the memory carts (format clocks, actually) with a rotary telephone dial, dialing in the event numbers (or skips and time corrects). Archaic as it sounds, it actually worked fairly well.
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jovialjay said:Bill DeFelice said:There was a second box that went with the SC-48 controller but I don't remember what it did
Very likely, that second box was an RA-5. The RA-5 could control up to 5 random access carousels.
Gates also had the SP-10 and SP-19. These were decided upgrades from the SC-48, and used a cart for memory. You created the memory carts (format clocks, actually) with a rotary telephone dial, dialing in the event numbers (or skips and time corrects). Archaic as it sounds, it actually worked fairly well.
Isn't that what we had in Hawkinsville? Along with a couple of 55's and a mess of Carousels.
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